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spooky3

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12. why didn't you link to the study you mention rather than opinion-based site?

Reply to GoLeft TV (Original post)

Thu Mar 24, 2016, 06:42 PM

Mar 2016

And how do you know that economists in general agree? Has there been a poll, weighted by some type of quality measure of the economists' work?

Anecdotally, certainly other economists that I have read do not agree with this assertion.

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why didn't you link to the study you mention rather than opinion-based site? spooky3 Mar 2016 #12

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why don't you direct this to the OP, who claims that not only do "economists agree", they spooky3 Mar 2016 #18

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