That&#x27;s not terrible advice from the perspective of forming an academic foundation, but otherwise falls pretty short.  If economics was as trivial as an introductory freshman course there wouldn&#x27;t be a contested field attempting to build models.<p>Relevant comic and all that jazz:
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