"History is a wonderful thing, if only it was true"
-Tolstoy

Sunday, August 02, 2009

Knock Deserved

Ivory Tower darkened by the recession
Black eye over assuming that players are "rational" not swayed by emotion.

What Good Are Economists Anyway? - BusinessWeek:

"The rap on economists, only somewhat exaggerated, is that they are overconfident, unrealistic, and political. They claim a precision that neither their raw material nor their skill warrants. Too many assume that people behave like the mythical homo economicus, who is hyperrational and omniscient."

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