Quote Originally Posted by leo9 View Post
So let me see: the Wall Street Journal set a quiz, found that liberals didn't agree with what the WSJ thought were the right answers, and concluded that this proves liberals are ignorant of economics.

Oddly enough, liberals would probably give "unenlightened" answers to a quiz they set on politics, too. What an ignorant lot we are to disagree with the WSJ!

Now, I'm only an amateur, but I'm pretty sure several of those answers are hotly disputed by economists. But of course the WSJ knows which ones are right. As for Q5, well, of course there can only be one factually right answer to "is this person exploited"!

As Tantric says, cute trick.
Economics cannot be disentangled from politics, I'd agree with that any time. Few things can, really, everything has an angle, based on the person's view of the world.

One big problem is that economics are presented as a sort of hard science where you just know what will happen if you do x in y situation. Some things you can say, but there are far too many variables, and far too many things over which you have no control.

Anyway, too many so called economic ideas are pure politics and nothing to do with economical theories.