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Lumifer comments on Valuable economics knowledge available, ironically, for free - Less Wrong Discussion

29 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 18 July 2013 11:30AM

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Comment author: Lumifer 19 July 2013 07:03:49PM 4 points [-]

You definitely should learn economics. While learning you should be sceptical of what you are being told -- more than usual in the case of macro models.

Just treat it as some shady characters spinning you a tale :-D Use your brains and make frequent checks against observable reality.