> Still, my impression is that the tendency
> to assume away huge issues and then derive airtight arguments based on
> those dubious assumptions was comparable.
It seems to me that economists question their assumptions just as
thoroughly as other scientists. What evidence is there that economists
in particular would be more prone to a "tendency to assume away huge
issues and then derive airtight arguments based on those dubious
assumptions" than other scientists would be?
Every scientist has an incentive to present their results as important
and their arguments to be on a sound basis rather than quicksand. Why
expect economists to be first in line for admitting "that the only
thing I really know is that I know nothing"?
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