After doing my MSc in Political Economics and studying lots of Game Theory, I became more interested in computer science. I remember watching a Stanford lecture

After doing my MSc in Political Economics and studying lots of Game Theory, I became more interested in computer science. I remember watching a Stanford lecture online on computational game theory. He explained many games are NP hard, and while this is only my own experience, we never once covered that idea in any of our courses on political/economic game theory. To be honest, I'm not sure any of the older economists or Political Scientists were all that familiar with it (I'm sure the incredibly bright younger post-docs were though). That really blew my mind, because up until that point I guess I had sort of taken it on faith -- without really getting it -- that these game models were accurately representing reality. I guess it sounds obvious after the fact that they aren't, but it was one of the biggest insights I've ever experienced.