{"id":187723,"date":"2011-03-23T20:14:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T01:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/03\/23\/quote-of-the-day-228\/"},"modified":"2011-03-23T20:14:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T01:14:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-228","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/03\/23\/quote-of-the-day-228\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a bit of discussion about whether or not economics is truly a science going around the economics blogs, and Tyler Cowen at <i>Marginal Revolution<\/i> makes what I think is the <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2011\/03\/is-economics-a-science-liquidity-trap-edition.html\">definitive comment<\/a> on whether it is the dismal science, or just dismal:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>I conclude that economics is not yet a science. Economics is more like a science when people do not care about the outcomes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a bit of discussion about whether or not economics is truly a science going around the economics blogs, and Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution makes what I think is the definitive comment on whether it is the dismal science, or just dismal: I conclude that economics is not yet a science. Economics &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[991,1002,1003],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academe","category-good-writing","category-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}