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As with most market cycles, if you get enough people following a common philosophy, the market will conform to the philosophy... for a while. In the past 100 o
by lotsofcows 13y ago
As with most market cycles, if you get enough people following a common philosophy, the market will conform to the philosophy... for a while.
In the past 100 or so years economics has completely failed to define itself as a science. You're using the wrong tense.
Anyway, we're drifting off-topic - I was bitching mainly about the title and a little about the misuse of Zipf's law. If the article was written in reverse, finishing with "this closely matches a power curve from which we can estimate x" then I would only have had a problem with the title "econophysicists".