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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there's incredible work going on but it's all proprietary oh well F
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i will dm you a cool project like this currently working on to try and restore the faith
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but eigen if you do scaled data work instead of p-hacking you don't get to go on 60 minutes to promote how you've Proven Bein Pensant Politics
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one time a guy who was a year ahead of me in high school came back to visit during my senior year and he was like "with my double major in economics i've learned so much like how trickle down economics doesn't work" ask yourself do you want to learn things or Own The ____?
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honestly insane that econ/game theory papers aren't all just oh yea we used BigQuery to churn through all the data in 2 mins
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there are some of these, kind of susan athey does very good ML work also some people at Amazon but they keep the good stuff to themselves last time I checked AMZN employed >250 econ phds
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