Although I don't consider economics to be a science by any means, what I'm seeing generally on HN is that programmers have a very good understanding of the poss

Although I don't consider economics to be a science by any means, what I'm seeing generally on HN is that programmers have a very good understanding of the possibilities and applications of bitcoin (the protocol) but don't understand much about economics. Not even the basics and I'm not talking about Friedman, Marx, Aristotle, Smith, Keynes, etc. I'm talking about basic micro/macro-economics.