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lcam84 · 2021-08-31 13:34:37

As Ursula Le Guin, I'm not an economist, but I live in one. Didn't mean to be literal, but I find ironic the use of the term, because it reminds me of rough which in portuguese, my native language is "Grosseiro"

qwerty888 | karma 4 | avg karma 0.57 · | 2013-07-22 00:54:43+00:00

I'm actually an economist and the term is only used by non-economists.

inflatableDodo | karma 2947 | avg karma 2.41 · | 2019-05-07 14:50:21+00:00

That's the one, I screwed up my terminology (not an economist, just dated one for a while).

msgilligan | karma 467 | avg karma 2.7 · | 2017-08-04 21:21:44+00:00

And the term 'Homo Economicus' is usually (and originally) used pejoratively to critique economics for its oversimplification of human behavior.

reader5000 | karma 1143 | avg karma 2.1 · | 2013-08-02 11:09:30

I'm actually an economist and I use it all the time.

LyndsySimon | karma 4208 | avg karma 1.98 · | 2014-06-04 20:34:13+00:00

I think it's a fairly common word amongst sociologists and economists. I've heard it in both contexts.

bitxbitxbitcoin | karma 1701 | avg karma 0.9 · | 2023-01-25 10:02:23

That last sentence is often used to criticize economics but haven’t heard it on harder “sciences” before.

taw55 | karma 115 | avg karma 1.37 · | 2017-12-21 12:05:59

Are you an economist?

arebop | karma 1387 | avg karma 3.05 · | 2024-02-05 11:44:14

It is common in economics

qubex | karma 5969 | avg karma 2.4 · | 2019-12-16 17:53:44+00:00

As an economist: yes.

rasur | karma 813 | avg karma 2.03 · | 2011-09-27 19:19:59+00:00

Sounds like we need an Economist in the Complex plane..

Hmm, an Imaginary Economist.. Sounds somehow apt?

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arethuza | karma 32254 | avg karma 2.88 · | 2015-09-24 11:33:03+00:00

"sounds like you have a hard sciences bent"

As someone who does come from a hard science/engineering background I tend to find that every time someone tries to explain economics to me the more alarming it sounds.

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ZeroCool2u | karma 2769 | avg karma 4.55 · | 2022-06-22 10:18:53

Like I said in another comment, I'm not an economist. My background is in CS and though I work with economists at times when they need the help, my skills are often more useful in operations.

nerdponx | karma 22397 | avg karma 2.51 · | 2017-01-09 14:45:50+00:00

Economists tend to go for whimsical names for their high concepts, cf. "Tragedy of the Commons"

bachmeier | karma 8205 | avg karma 3.64 · | 2021-06-07 10:40:23+00:00

Honest question. Do you know what an economist is? I'm pretty sure you don't.

Source: I'm an economist.

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fulafel | karma 12262 | avg karma 1.65 · | 2022-11-08 01:12:12

Maybe. Economics also has quite bad terms for many things. Like discrimination here, or "rational". It's like maths and programming, you can find useful things in category theory but it's not necessarily useful to adopt it as a framework in your communication.

rmellow | karma 614 | avg karma 2.67 · | 2022-05-17 10:07:55

"God was very harsh with economists, as in Economics, the atom thinks, speaks and reacts" - Delfim Netto, Brazilian economist.

gberger | karma 1507 | avg karma 3.6 · | 2017-09-25 03:44:03+00:00

Wait, I thought exonomist was a typo. Does it mean anything different than economist?

Dylan16807 | karma 31639 | avg karma 1.39 · | 2013-12-24 19:38:53+00:00

I think it's fair to bake economics into their identity when the conversation is solely about economics, and not about specific people.

WalterBright | karma 71923 | avg karma 2.96 · | 2022-08-13 11:34:07

Economists know what words mean.