Quote Originally Posted by Penneywize View Post
I don't think you know what gets taught in Econ tbh. To give you an idea I'll just read off the topics from my graduate macroeconomics course.

General Equilibrium Theory
Elements of Dynamic Economies in Continuous Time
Elements of Dynamic Optimization
Elements of Stochastic Processes

I must've missed the chapter about taking trickle-down as gospel. I can honestly tell you I've never been taught at any point anything to do with this supposed phenomenon; only independent study has taught me anything about it at all. And, it might surprise you, the vast majority of what I've heard about it comes from non-academic sources - it really is, like most things political, not an objective topic at all.

As for your bit about the data bearing fruit etc etc. I'd like to know where you're getting all this from. If all you're doing is:

- Look at grafs
- Draw conclusions

Then you're doing it wrong. Despite what correlations you may find between, say, socialist-leaning states and whatever outcomes you believe to be favourable (whatever it is you were talking about before), this is almost never the entire story. Unless you're getting this from really legit apolitical academic sources I really can't give it any weight. The reason for this is simple, unless you can show causality, then your argument is meaningless. Learn to econometrics.

That is all.
I'm referring to the highly politicized issues