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Behind the Brilliance

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I Hate Micro Economics as an Undergrad

As an undergraduate, Pass hated micro economics. He thought it was the silliest subject because it made all these assumptions about perfect decision makers and human rationality that immediately struck him as a waste. So he spent a summer in summer school and switched into an engineering major to get away from it. And so i really fell in love with it as soon as it was introduced to me as a graduate student; i've been studying it ever since.

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