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Re:Bad Economics by disgruntledphd2 on Monday March 21, 2022 @11:44AM (#30755370)
> Not to mention RCT, causal inference, GIS, and machine learning applications

RCT's were developed by psychologists (for educational purposes) and promoted by medical statisticians.

Causal inference was essentially invented by a computer scientist.

You can definitely thank geographers for GIS, and ML is basically a rebranding of statistics by Comp Sci researchers.

Game theory I'll definitely concede to economics, but political science is it's own discipline, and shouldn't be regarded as part of economics.

Re:Bad Economics by huitzitziltzin on Monday March 21, 2022 @10:02PM (#30762009)
Economists generally work in a framework which predates Judea Pearl’s work by at least half a century. Causal inference was not invented by a computer scientist.
Re:Bad Economics by disgruntledphd2 on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @09:43AM (#30765980)
Do you have some links please?
Re:Bad Economics by tomrod on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @07:09PM (#30772779)
Rubin model / Rubin-Neyman model

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubin_causal_model

Pearl credits it in The Book of Why.