Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
Reply to @dysangelistes

@dysangelistes A little harsh, de Tocqueville. Nonetheless, striking, first arriving Stateside, how totalizing and normalized - relative to all world cultures I'd yet encountered - was capitalism's fully-sanctified grip on the national psyche. It was, above all, the unquestionable religion.

Excerpt from tweet thread here: One of the greatest tricks ever played is the modern economics profession somehow convincing much of humanity that what they do is an “empirical science” rather than a highly ideological project. This sentence, in a 2021 US Federal Reserve document: “The primary role of mainstream economics in our society is to provide an apologetics for a criminally oppressive, unsustainable, and unjust social order." - Hildenbrand, 1994.
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Excerpt from tweet thread here: One of the greatest tricks ever played is the modern economics profession somehow convincing much of humanity that what they do is an “empirical science” rather than a highly ideological project. This sentence, in a 2021 US Federal Reserve document: “The primary role of mainstream economics in our society is to provide an apologetics for a criminally oppressive, unsustainable, and unjust social order." - Hildenbrand, 1994.