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    4 months ago

    Yeah it’s batshit that an economist won a nobel prize for his theory that people don’t act 100% rationally so that’s why economic models were failing to predict reality.

    Like, I’m sure it wasn’t obvious and I’m not trying to sound like I’m smarter than economists, but holy fuck duh

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      84 months ago

      My economics teacher would publicly fellate Alan Greenspan in class. Cue the subprime mortgage crisis and Mr Greenspan is out there going “I didn’t account for bankers being stupid and greedy.”

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      74 months ago

      Hahaha that’s fantastic! Do you remember who it was? I’d love to read about this…

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        84 months ago

        duckduckgo’d: ‘economist won a nobel prize for his theory that people don’t act 100% rationally so that’s why economic models were failing’ results was this:(theconversation(dot)com link), so I guess Richard Thaler is who you’re looking for.

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        34 months ago

        It’s like people are the ones doing the things that create an economy so economists should be integrating the study of human psychology into economic theory.

        Which, to the credit of the discipline seems to be happening finally (at least more than it was in the past).