so if you want to fix endemic problems in the field, maybe think first about how medicine approached similar problems.
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and to steer towards improvement, "be like medicine" is a lot more helpful than "be like (field that doesn't involve humans)"
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ok that's all
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also i'm followed by like two economists so
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I think in Econ we're about at the "Four humors" stage of modeling the economy. Need to take it to more detailed level.
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absolutely. Thankfully people do keep trying, which is a good thing
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also like medicine in sense that we're paid a lot of money to tell people not to do obviously stupid things, then ignored
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also I wonder if it's helpful to separate analysis of subfields. eg, empirical IO operates nothing like macro theory (?)
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finally . . . comparison to medicine apt but I'm not sure we should aspire to that since medicine too seems dysfunctional
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disagree! my point is that the dysfunction in medicine is one of the best levels of dysfunction we can hope for
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this kind of bleakness is my aesthetic, I am on board
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