Oddbean new post about login | logout @3840abd4 To step away from humor, I view economics as very much a synthesis. Recognized as such its easier, but we have a habit of treating named disciplines as all the same.
@139feece It is a multidisciplinary practical field with a fistful of partial models that help sometimes. But if we were really going to bin it in with other disciplines, I'd honestly call it a specialization of sociology. This angers a lot of business school people, which makes me happy.
@3840abd4 I can agree with that actually. "Economic Sociology" as it were. I wonder if considering "The Economy" as some identifiable, studiable, distinct entity is a cultural/political distortion.