Brian Epstein, “The Social World, Reexamined” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Economics
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How Do We Go Forwards From Here?
Rational choice theory was based on the idea that human irrationalities would cancel each other out. But recent research has shown they are not a normal distribution, and people are systematically biased in certain ways. So where do we go from here? What does the economist do? The first thing to realize is that we're in early days of this new era for economics. To try to solve ontological problems on their own terms.
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