How economists rode maths to become our era’s astrologers
I studied economics and philosophy in college. Did a bit of economics research for a senior thesis.<p>I was encouraged to study economics as a more "practical counterbalance" to philosophy. The funny thing is, I've found philosophy, in how it helped me improve the rigor of my thought, to be much more useful and practical than anything I learned in economics.<p>Economics needs to rely more on computation and data than on abstract mathematical models if it ever hopes to have real predictive power.