wedrifid comments on Assuming Nails - Less Wrong

6 Post author: Psychohistorian 05 July 2010 10:26PM

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 06 July 2010 01:18:45AM 12 points [-]

Right now, it is fashionable to criticize economic models. Reading a thesis on LW that I can see in many other places is not so much fun. Furthermore, the thesis as presented is much too strong. For many purposes classical economics works. For example, classical economics does a decent job predicting how different sorts of goods will influence each other, such as how closely related products will interact.

Comment author: wedrifid 06 July 2010 03:16:15PM *  0 points [-]

Furthermore, the thesis as presented is much too strong.

Not only that, the thesis is presented in a really annoying font. I actually suspect this has at least as much influence on the reception of the post.