economy

Thin link between statistics and politics. Since stats can prove pretty much anything, the so-called economic "sciences" is nothing more than the art of justifying the acts and thoughts that are politically or financially favorable for our specific group by using arguments that are mathematically undiniable but socially and environnementally absurd

Our studies show that recycling is not economically profitable for underdevelloped countries because it lowers the amount of ressources needed in richer countries thus lowering importations ...

by Green Anarchist September 28, 2003

emondghetto

adj. one who is emo and ghetto, either a emo who listens to rap, or a ghetto who listens to emo music.

Domingue listens to emo music but wears ghetto clothing therefore she is emondghetto.

by Nikkiboo November 15, 2007

embonusment

(n.) embonusment: a form of embezzlement involving authorization of year-end bonuses in failing banks and investment firms, financed by government bailouts
(v.) to embonus

The insolvency of many Wall Street firms did not prevent widespread embonusment, as industry professionals took whatever they could before the lights went out.

by wellwell February 1, 2009

econ stare

that look you give when someone just tried to explain something and all the words fly over your head

Once the wise ass started talking about integrals, the dumbass gave him the econ stare

by hobobillie June 26, 2010

econobonics

Meaningless gibberish about economics meant to make an ignorant writer sound authoritative.

...in the comments there was some minor quibbling and tut-tutting and a healthy-heapin’ handful of econobonics words like “predictive,” “multi-causal,” “independent predictor,” “differing methodologies,” and “intervening assumptions” ...

(from tbogg at firedoglake dot com, 2010-07-27, "Quivering-with-antici-pation")

by Tehanu July 28, 2010

econocentrism

Econocentrism is judging another economic system solely by the values and standards of one's own economic system. Econocentric individuals judge advocates for other economic systems relative to their own economic system, especially with concern for underlying supply and demand principles, with or without formalizing the value of intangible assets like human emotional development or environmental sustainability, and the monolithic implied trustworthiness of market dynamics.

These distinctions and subdivisions among various economic systems serve to define each economists unique philosophical and academic identity. Econocentrism may be overt or subtle, and while it is considered a natural proclivity of western democratic and humanitarian values, it has developed a generally negative connotation as a result of the contemporary outcome of globalized neo-liberal and free-market economic dominance, which has been observed as producing obscene wealth and income inequality, robust destruction of the life supporting planetary ecosystem, and the dismantling of the ability of national political institutions to serve the best interests of their largest constituencies.

The Grove City College holds a peculiar variation of econocentrism, as its core economic curricula is structured to communicate the theory of free-market economics as most notably presented by Von Mises. This economic system and theory is an outlier among other US colleges and universities, which predominantly are econocentrist, to the context of neo-liberal economics.

by aaron_ros June 9, 2016

emonergy

A certain feeling you get from someone that tells you they used to be in an emo phase but with no discernible evidence for the claim.

Guy 1: ya idk what it is about her man. You can just tell by looking at her that she used to be the type to dye her hair and she probably had snakebites
Guy 2: ya man, you mean she has the emonergy?

by Giatro June 30, 2019