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Ep 321: Josh Felman Tries to Make Sense of the World

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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Is There Something Glorious and Universal About Economics?

In the STEM world, there is really a reasonably flat world of global knowledge. But what's unique and different and difficult about understanding human beings are that you don't get that level of generality. Each place has its own data sets and its own mysteries and its own empirical regularities. So the transplantation doesn't work very well. You can't take knowledge from Indonesia and transport it to India.

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