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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/09/2026

Rather, economics was a *natural* science, like physics, in which everything important could be crystallized (which is to say, reduced) to an equation: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_M...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/09/2026

Economists call these equations "models," and they are famously impenetrable...unless you've had extensive training in economics.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/09/2026

Once everything important about the economy was captured by abstruse equations, ordinary people's "feelings" about being squeezed, coerced, corralled or cheated were no longer germane: pluralistic.net/2022/05/09/r...

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Pluralistic: 09 May 2022 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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