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Nicholas Charriere
@pushix
Favorite trait of mathematicians: ability to conceptualize Favorite trait of physicists: ability to model everything I don’t know as much about economists. What’s their best ability ?
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Nick Chow
@nicholasachow
As people have pointed out, subsets of economists are good at different things: game theory and modeling equilibria, marginal analysis, understanding incentives, etc. Super rare that you encounter single economists able to straddle all these disciplines though.
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𝚐𝔪𝟾𝚡𝚡𝟾
@gm8xx8
@perl
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Ed O'Shaughnessy
@eddieosh
Macro economists believe in infinity. Not sure it should be considered a best ability though.
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July
@july
Favorite trait of economists: ability to convince the world that economics is a science
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Brunny.eth
@brunny
Game theory is a very useful subset of economics (especially in the context of blockchains), but not all economists are great game theorists
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Cassie Heart
@cassie
I don't remember where I heard this, but I once heard: Engineering is applied physics Physics is applied mathematics Mathematics is applied insanity The deeper I go down the cryptography rabbit hole, the more accurate this feels
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Henry Hobin
@sir
Ability to recognize? Economists understand the relationship between events, and the great macroeconomists can recognize the impact certain things (ex: increasing the supply of $) have on other things (ex: the markets)
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Sridhar Srinivasan
@sridhars
Figure out what happens when utility maximizers interact.
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Adam Baybutt
@baybutt
Ability to identify non obvious incentives and trade offs.
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