As a former cognitive neuroscientist with a master&#x27;s in psychology, I will just point out that psychology departments look at the massive amount of data demonstrating human irrationality, and conclude that economists are mistaken or wildly naive to extrapolate from &quot;rational actors&quot; human beings.<p>You don&#x27;t have a &quot;math problem&quot;, you have a &quot;data&#x2F;science problem&quot;. And saly, at least at the micro-level, economists could have disabused themselves of the accuracy of rationality decades ago (e.g., Kahneman and Tversky&#x27;s work in the 70&#x27;s).<p>Much modern economics is like the elaborate math of epicycles, close enough, but still missing key insights. And this won&#x27;t change until data is valued more.