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Economics is not really something people think of when they talk about humanities or social sciences. Indeed, in Econ grad school I learned a lot about control
by LudwigNagasena 6y ago
Economics is not really something people think of when they talk about humanities or social sciences.
Indeed, in Econ grad school I learned a lot about control theory, statistics, dynamic programming, etc. But I was never told to read Foucault, Levi-Strauss or even Marx - something that sociologists and other people in humanities usually have at least a basic understanding of.
If we judge what is science by level of quantitative rig our then economics is the only social science.
- ghaff 6y agoThere are definitely areas of overlap with social sciences--especially these days. Behavioral economics (for which Richard Thaler won a Nobel Prize a couple years back) grew directly out of behavioral psychology for example.