Re:Economics Nobel laureate Paul Romer is a Python programmi...
by webmaven on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @11:09PM
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> I'm not an economist so maybe this is something about economics per se.
No, this is just a case of historical contingency, or the founder effect, depending on your preferred metaphor. Stata and Mathematica are suitable tools (and were suitable early on) that happened to be adopted by a few economists, whose choice was then spread and perpetuated via various organizations and institutions, word of mouth and curricula.
No, this is just a case of historical contingency, or the founder effect, depending on your preferred metaphor. Stata and Mathematica are suitable tools (and were suitable early on) that happened to be adopted by a few economists, whose choice was then spread and perpetuated via various organizations and institutions, word of mouth and curricula.