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The Ideology of Economics

The conventional wisdom always changes and things are much more about fashions than anyone likes to believe. The Economist magazine would crap all over if they did a cover story on Indonesia today because of exactly those reasons that you point out. I think just being aware of how flimsy the ideology is behind a lot of these opinions and media stories is a really important thing to keep in mind. It's actually trying to combine your knowledge of what's going on in the world, which is always going to be imperfect, and then create some kind of model that tells you what's actually going on.

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