• Semi-Hemi-Demigod
    21•11 months ago

    Saying that a conservative economic school is pro-business and anti-labor is not what I’d call an ad hominem, but a statement of fact. Saying they want to prop up the commercial real estate business isn’t ad hominem either.

      • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
        11•11 months ago

        The Chicago School itself says:

        Conservative politicians like Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and Margaret Thatcher championed Friedman’s ideas

        So maybe the school itself holds to some kind of political neutrality, but conservatives love their theories.

        • @ElegantBiscuit@lemmy.world
          5•11 months ago

          This. Economics is a social science where every theory or opinion aims to achieve different varying desired outcomes for different people and in achieved in different ways, with spectrums for every step along the process. The entire field is on a spectrum, that also generally aligns with the political spectrum because politics, like economics, strives to achieve a certain outcome for a certain group of people, in a certain way. Trying to disentangle the field of economics from people. and the politics that people create, is a red flag for not actually knowing what economics is.