Economics
To me economics, like many things in life, is all about
unbiased observations, unprejudiced perceptions, doing away with defensive
statistical justifications, cutting off camouflaging irrelevant logical
fallacies, chaffing off bombastic jargons, curtailing the instinct to churn out
untested or untestable theories and instead engage
in interpretations of all the observed facts uninfluenced by any
ideological affiliations taking into consideration various factors that impact
and/or involved in these facts appropriate to the context and relevant to the
region.
By applying these criteria, I feel Julian L.Simon as one among the
many great economists.
Don’t miss to read some parts with summaries of some chapters of one of his
work THE ULTIMATE
RESOURCE , of course,
culled from the internet
Unfortunately our information input and subconsciously
opinion molding is both done by these popular media houses who too suffer from
selective amnesia and collective indifference. Let us not fall a prey to that.
You may also read of relevance to the last 4 points
Edward Tenner: Unintended consequences
and Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Statistics
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