If you cannot make a statement in social science using economic terms, then eith

If you cannot make a statement in social science using economic terms, then either you don’t know what you’re talking about, or you are engaged in selection bias, or worse, deception. Hence the rise of “Economic Imperialism” in the Academy as a counter to social pseudoscience..


Source date (UTC): 2018-05-10 14:34:25 UTC

Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/994586462803906560

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@KennethBuff @sapinker The NYT article conveys is that it is that virtue signaling is a form of conspicuous consumption that one forces others to pay the indirect cost of.
Or stated directly: we are burning the most valuable form of capital in the world (homogeneity and high trust) for virtue signals.

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@curtdoolittle

@KennethBuff @sapinker The NYT article conveys is that it is that virtue signaling is a form of conspicuous consumption that one forces others to pay the indirect cost of.
Or stated directly: we are burning the most valuable form of capital in the world (homogeneity and high trust) for virtue signals.

Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/994585863207182336

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