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Those are not economists by trade nor profession. None of those people had PhDs in Econ. Never once were they called “economists”

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Why does Asness' PhD in finance under Farmer not count, for example? Is a financial economist not an economist, i.e., things like the EMH are not part of economics? Why do you think their training in economics was irrelevant?

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