Follies of Economics
Posted on December 30, 2008
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Razib on the follies of economics. I don’t know enough to say much beyond noticing that many economic majors have horrible math skills. Not all do of course. But when math is such a big part of modeling it always left me with heavy skepticism towards the profession. Undoubtedly unfairly so since there are many very well versed in math and statistics. I’m also skeptical of the “rational actor” model that is behind so much.
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