Comments on: Reinventing the dismal science

By: eric

eric — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 03:27:18 +0000

if it were a mathematician looking at the economy it would just be some overly complex trends and data. But if it was a physicist the economy would be so perfectly analyzed that we would be in a perpetual bliss from our economics utopia, since physicists are awesome.

I dont know why people put mathematicians/physicists in the same boat. we are totally different, just because we both use complex math means nothing. they are concerned with number theory, we are concerned with laws of the universe.

Im a physicist, so there is some bias, perhaps.

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By: Heumpje

Heumpje — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:50:24 +0000

Ouch! I guess the problem with these kind of papers is that the economists hire a mathematician/physicist for the know-how, but there is a fundamental lack of understanding between both sides.