To provide examples outside climate science, it would be a consensus
among academic economists that «market capitalism» is by and large the most effective political economy available to humanity, and among academic political scientists that «representative democracy» is by and large the most effective form of political organisation available.
That issue is crucial for Professor Gordon of Northwestern, arguably the most influential pessimist
among academic economists today.
Not exact matches
And it's simply this: For instance, if you look back 50 or 80 years ago, you could say that
economists,
academic economists, Nobel Prize winning level
economists, were
among the most brilliant people we had in this country.
It may have taken a surprisingly long time for analysts to understand why the credit process made rebalancing both urgent and inevitable, but it was clear to many
economists, especially
among Chinese
academics, that severe distortions had been building at least since the beginning of the last decade.
The issues discussed were broader than those now debated
among practitioners of religious studies, since the early
economists did not know that their task was to establish an
academic discipline.
In fact,
economists Zvi Eckstein and Kenneth Wolpin show that,
among white males who entered 9th grade in the early 1980s, those who failed to graduate from high school had lower
academic skills and were less motivated for schoolwork than those who did graduate.
:) PS: If
economists are trying to improve their standing in the
academic world (eg, gain some minimum level of respect
among real scientists), you are certainly not helping things one iota with your nutball stuff.
«Reddit subs shouldn't dominate, but should be second - fiddle to serious, carefully framed discussion in journals,
academic conferences and
among computer scientists,
economists and other experts.»