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Same with economics; when someone says in the comments for a rant piece that homo economicus is a core concept of all modern economics because that's what they
by grenoire 9y ago
Same with economics; when someone says in the comments for a rant piece that homo economicus is a core concept of all modern economics because that's what they learned in that one 101 class they took... Grr...
- dsacco 9y agoIt must be quite fun for you to read so many armchair financiers here reconstructing modern economics from first principles on the one hand, while throwing in gems like “economics is not a science” because “not all participants are rational actors as usually assumed” on the other :)
- grenoire 9y agoThat's very apt. Except it stops being fun pretty quickly.