One issue with Economics, as an undegrad major its denial or downplaying the utility of 'fiction'. ie, it treata fiction as the wrong half a dichotomy: truth:fi

One issue with Economics, as an undegrad major its denial or downplaying the utility of 'fiction'. ie, it treata fiction as the wrong half a dichotomy: truth:fiction == rational:irrational. Yet real world problem solving requires not just deduction, but imagingation (ie, possible alternative priors from which to base deductions). Like any good crime detective ;). TLDR: fiction-->imaginitive pre-visualization-->creative problem solving. STEM and wanna-be STEM subjects like econ are good for benhcmarking discrete problem solving, and for providing technical priors. for that there is no doubt. Its just not the whole picture of problem solving (esp. dealing with people, etc).