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user-inactivated · 3295 days ago · link · · parent · post: Admit it: you know nothing about economics.

I have a degree in it, a worthless one. I learned a decent amount of history and summarized a lot of conflicting papers about things like the LFPR and globalization's impact. I read a thousand page Austrian bible by Rothbard. I drew graphs.

Four years down the drain but at least it was free (I knew that part was important going in -- didn't learn it from my economics courses).

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tacocat · 3295 days ago · link ·

What do you do for a living? I'm interested in other people who think they have a useless degree

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user-inactivated · 3295 days ago · link ·

I work at a software company doing work entirely unrelated to economics. Degree got me in the door, obviously.

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user-inactivated · 3295 days ago · link ·

I'm a little appalled there's an economics department teaching Rothbard, but maybe he was a better economist than political philosopher.

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user-inactivated · 3295 days ago · link ·

There wasn't. But there was an Austrian club of sorts which had on average dozens more IQ points than the regular economics club. They got me a free copy.