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Imo the economics profession very much suffers from inferiority complex known as "physics envy".

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JumpCrisscross8mo ago· 2 in thread

> economics profession very much suffers from inferiority complex known as "physics envy"

You’re mixing up quantitative finance and economics.

Excuse me? Quant finance doesn't claim to be devising grand theories about how the world operates (is more akin to engineering). And when it does, any delineation from economics is moot.

JumpCrisscross8mo ago

> Quant finance doesn't claim to be devising grand theories about how the world operates

What do you base this on?

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