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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&quot…
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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…
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