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    1. Russell Roberts‏Verified account @EconTalker 21 Feb 2019

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      But nothing in economics (other than Becker's work which has had no impact on how economics is taught) treats human beings as social beings. We are not just individuals in the models. We're alone, buying goods, and generating "utility." Bizarre vision of what creates well-being. https://twitter.com/veryrichard/status/1098700277669154817 …

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    2. Russell Roberts‏Verified account @EconTalker 21 Feb 2019

      The social part of the "social science" is understanding that through our interactions with others (called markets) prices and quantities emerge. But nothing about friendship, marriage, community as part of "utility."

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      Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 21 Feb 2019
      Replying to @EconTalker

      Maybe you can have social or science, but not both.

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        1. Mikael Pawlo‏Verified account @mpawlo 21 Feb 2019
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          I’d say it depends on whether it’s interpretivist or positivist social scientists. The latter is using the same methology as natural scientists. The former is a tougher cookie to swallow in a scientifical sense, since they operate without traditionally scientifical methods.

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        2. TakingHayekSeriously 🧨‏ @FriedrichHayek 21 Feb 2019
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          Hayek showed that you can have a social science — and he also showed that the received picture of “science” was junk. These projects were intimately related. More people should be aware of them and understand them.

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        3. TakingHayekSeriously 🧨‏ @FriedrichHayek 21 Feb 2019
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          Science starts with an empirical problem and science provides us with solutions to those problems which unify the phenomena and answer our “why” questions. Hayek and Adam Smith showed us that economics does this. The problem is professors that don’t get it & do the science wrong.

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        2. Curtis Lanoue‏ @CurtisLanoue 21 Feb 2019
          Replying to @paulg @EconTalker

          Not true at all. If you use science to at society, that's social science. And it's very much possible.

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        3. Russell Roberts‏Verified account @EconTalker 21 Feb 2019
          Replying to @CurtisLanoue @paulg

          Yeah, and it's not science. It's just called science. Shouldn't confuse faux science with the real thing but we do it all the time.

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        1. Jack Rametta‏ @JtRametta 21 Feb 2019
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          10 points for doing a Stephen J. Gould impression

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