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#303 – Steve Keen: Marxism, Capitalism, and Economics
Lex Fridman Podcast
Why I Don't Want to Do an Economics Degree
I think there's a lot of beauty in economics. A lot of destruction that's possible so you have to be extremely careful. But that's kind of the cutting edge of which we'll often operate as a humanity. Can you give advice to young people in high school and college? Maybe they're interested in economics. Maybe they have other career ideas. Mainly I say don't do an economics degree. It's not that economics is not a discipline worth deeply studying. It's that the university education around that is bad. So get a sort of base engineering education. The base engineering education that is far better than doing an Economics degree.
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