Thomas Sowell, Ch. 1 What is Economics? in Basic Economics
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Economics is not simply a topic on which to express opinions or vent emotions. It is a systematic study of what happens when you do specific things in specific ways. In economic analysis, the methods used by a Marxist economist like Oskar Lange did not differ in any fundamental way from the methods used by a conservative economist like Milton Friedman.
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An economist is a practitioner in the social science discipline of economics.
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