> How many had serious faith in the neural network approach, or at least were very excited about its potential? There were at least some economists that had ho

> How many had serious faith in the neural network approach, or at least were very excited about its potential? There were at least some economists that had hope back then. Here's a paper my advisor published in 1995, but that he had written several years earlier for his dissertation: http://econweb.rutgers.edu/nswanson/papers/selec3.pdf http://econweb.rutgers.edu/nswanson/papers/selec3.pdf Hal White was working with NN in the 1980s. Here's one of his publications from 1988: http://www.machine-learning.martinsewell.com/ann/White1988.pdf http://www.machine-learning.martinsewell.com/ann/White1988.p...