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The Limits of Technocracy

UCL Uncovering Politics

CHAPTER

Are Economists Still Too Abstracted?

Politicians were asked where their economic ideas come from and how far they'd been influenced by economists. Some of them might have read a couple of economists in their youth, but others didn't mention any economists at all. Their economic ideas did seem to have been very much shaped by their political values. And the second point that came through was that they are critical, but economists are still quite abstracted from real life.

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