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> Political Economist rant about how Political economists are explicitly less interested in the quantitative side of economics - which is why they call themsel
by bonsai_spool 1y ago
> Political Economist rant about how
Political economists are explicitly less interested in the quantitative side of economics - which is why they call themselves political economists.
Thus, the comment about data makes a lot of sense, and isn't evidence of what is going on with economists
- logicalfails 1y agoHis work and department was very quant heavy. I'd say the majority of his students spend most of their time in Python/R cleaning datasets running models
- bonsai_spool 1y agoI'm not disagreeing with you, and I also know political economists from that time who complain that their discipline is changing. It just has very little to do with what this article is discussing.