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		lionhearted on Aug 29, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Study Says World's Stocks Controlled by Select Few In fairness to economics, it's one of the most politicized fields. Back when hard sciences were a threat to some religious dogma, there was lots of trouble even doing astronomy. Economics is up against something a little similar to that right now.

Herring on Aug 29, 2009 | [–]

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=market+failure

My guess is it's doing as well as any social science, probably better.

kingkongrevenge on Aug 29, 2009 | [–]

Economics is inherently political. Please drop the pretense that there can ever be economic study not deeply interwoven with politics.

albertcardona on Aug 29, 2009 | [–]

There can be. There is such thing as integrity and objectivity, particularly with the hindsight of centuries.

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