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Ep. 69: Ben Landau-Taylor on social technology, institutions, and the future.

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Is Social Science a Good Idea?

For most of a, most of human history, this is not how social science was done. And i just don't think that's true. A lot of the some micro economics i think is very good for the areas that it tries to say things about. Here are the features of a market. If you don't have these features, it doesn't really apply,. and it's not intended to. In macroecon, people sort of selectively forget about those. But in micro i find that people are much better at remembering where it doesnt applied. Ah, so that one does cover everything, but the things it covers, it covers really well. There's a bunch of more theoretical stuff

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