Ben Hyde escribi�:
a big +1 on the whole (big one plays nice with my comment, see below)
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But unlike a piece of capital equipment an open source project is a lot more than it's CVS repositories. It's much more social construct than that. Economists don't really like to think about social constructs; they don't play well with their naive mathematics.
I remember casually hearing in Sciences Faculty Restaurant (Sciences was just close to Economics in the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid) a teacher of Economics, teaching mathematics to the poor guys, talking to a colleague something like:
"I don't really buy into this crap of having an indefinite number of real numbers between each pair of them. Do you?"
He was so serious and it was so clueless I felt bad about it. I was like 20, just finishing my studies, and I still believed that teachers were superior people.
My thesis director there (a very good teacher), in Quantum Chemistry, used to say that Economics people lived in the safety of oversimplification through MacLaughlin and Taylor series expansions, and all of their conclusions were only valid infinitesimally close to zero. This is, BTW, true of most Engineering disciplines.
This is no longer true in Economics Research, but it has permeated most of the current Economics "common sense", as you say.
- ben
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