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Many academic economists still cling to "rational choice theory": the… | |
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@johncarlosbaez As somebody trained in politics and economics, Ive never consid… | |
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@johncarlosbaez utility is such a bland choice of word to describe the machiner… | |
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@johncarlosbaez Isn’t marketing the thing which plays with our utility functi… | |
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@johncarlosbaez OTOH, they don't even seem to apply it properly. Consider a… | |
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@johncarlosbaez I've been reading a bit about this recently for an applicat… | |
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@johncarlosbaez Regarding economic so much is wronghttps://infosec.exchange/@re… | |
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@johncarlosbaez> a collection of individuals each rationally maximizing thei… | |
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@johncarlosbaez As a non-economist who reads academic economics I don't sha… | |
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@johncarlosbaez "academic economists" is an oxymoron anyway. There&#… | |
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@pa27 - "academic" means roughly "working as a professor at a un… | |
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@maxpool - I'm working with a labor economist and he says a lot of work in … | |
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@johncarlosbaez @maxpoolThat is a good description of the *bulk*of theoretical … | |
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@johncarlosbaez Here's the standard answer: the von Neuman-Morgenstern expe… | |
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@johncarlosbaez I did not mean to imply that rational choice should be abandone… | |
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@johncarlosbaez All these models are incomplete without accounting for stupidit… | |
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@TerryHancock wrote: "Do we consider it a matter of "own utility"… | |
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@johncarlosbaez Economists are astrologers sans stars.A proper theory of econom… | |
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@johncarlosbaez rational actors maximizing utility is a useful model. My perso… | |
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@TerryHancock @johncarlosbaez Do people maximixe absolute utility or relative u… | |
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@CascadeTommy @TerryHancock - in rational choice theory people maximize utility… | |
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@johncarlosbaez @pa27 There's a telling story in one of Nassim Taleb's … | |
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@johncarlosbaez as an economic layperson who knows a little bit of math, I foun… | |
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@johncarlosbaez @pa27 As any fule kno, they're doing dismal science.https:… | |
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@vnikolov - here 'rationally' maximizing utility means maximizing the e… | |
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@johncarlosbaez> here 'rationally' maximizing utility means maximizi… | |
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@johncarlosbaez 1/2 Smart people can be sometimes naive when they speak about a… | |
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@johncarlosbaez 2/2 Of course not. If i just moved to a new job and i have a ne… |