Re:Bad Economics
by huitzitziltzin on Monday March 21, 2022 @10:02PM
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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
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Do you have some links please?
Rubin model / Rubin-Neyman model
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubin_causal_model
Pearl credits it in The Book of Why.
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.