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sievebrain on July 31, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Britain’s scientists are freaking out over Brexit

The Platonian ideal of an unbiased, expert economist who can see into the future is a fantasy. No such people exist.

gonvaled on July 31, 2016 [–]

Sure, so he was chosing his particular brand of experts, of which there seems to be few.

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