Posts Tagged ‘fake economist’

Econ: Better to be accredited and wrong … or not accredited and right?

January 30, 2013

First. my stake in the game: I consider myself an economist … at heart and by schooling … majored in econ … grad work in applied econ … worked for awhile doing econometrics.

Econ still permeates my marketing strategy work.

So, I was naturally drawn by an article in the UK Independent:

“Fraudster  fools a whole nation: Portuguese economics pundit exposed as conman.”

Just looking at this dude has gotta set off some alarm bells …

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Here’s the story and my take on the question ….

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