some major social theoretical advances and practical technologies from the last hundred years
1. game theory
2. auction theory
3. matching markets
4. financialization
5. preference cascades
what else, this is pretty econ-heavy 
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glaeser once said something to the effect of "game theory is so mathematically clean that it attracts far too many economics, on balance, than should be studying game theory" i think this is certainly true about behavioral but think the hype by now has died down sufficiently
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yeah that's also true of game theory dead end econ should actually be doing scaled data work but instead everyone is wasting time p-hacking with more steps hate it
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