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Yes?

Economics is the distribution of finite goods amongst infinite desires.

It’s the objective way to optimize an economy given some normative set up.

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It can't be that objective if there are multiple schools of thought. Getting two economists to agree on why what happened yesterday happened is hard enough, let alone getting them to agree on what we should do today to have a specific outcome tomorrow.

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