Re: poly: Econ, the final frontier...

From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Tue Jan 06 1998 - 14:46:53 PST

Robin Hanson writes:
> But beyond simple supply
> and demand reasoning and some awareness of the prisoner's dilemna,
> they just don't know much about technical social science.

Dunno. I got the impression very early on in my academic carreer that
the social scientists with the ability to reason correctly and
actually follow the scientific method were rare, and thus started
steering clear of social science for the same reason (pardon me, AI
researchers) I stay away from most AI research.

You are obviously an exception, but I don't know if you are enough to
get me away from my earlier impression of the subject.

Perry
Received on Tue Jan 6 22:46:46 1998

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