The Third Lesson From the Pandemic

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One of the best things i've learned from the pandemic is how eager it's not unrelated to our earlier conversation. I don't want to make strong predictions about howtat will turn out. But, ah, so one of my lessons from the pand epidemic is to be even more agnostic about what i know than i was before. The importance of the social, i suppose, is the other and am, let's see how long that sticks if the pandemic really is over.

Mainstream economics, says author Diane Coyle, keeps treating people like cogs: self-interested, rational agents. But in the digital economy, we're less sophisticated consumer and more monster under the influece of social media. Listen as the economist and former UK Treasury advisor tells EconTalk host Russ Roberts how, for economics to remain relevant, it needs both more diverse methodologies and more engagement with the broader issues of the day.