Economists sometimes present their discipline as the queen of the social sciences, a claim staked primarily on a superificial resemblance to physics: It has universal laws! Expressed in numbers!

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If we are going to debate economic policy, let’s at least start with a shared (and accurate) understanding of economic theory.

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