army1987 comments on Productivity as a function of ability in theoretical fields - Less Wrong

14 Post author: Stefan_Schubert 26 January 2014 01:16PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 02 February 2014 01:47:17PM 0 points [-]

I wonder how many of those big, solvable problems there are. It's not clear there are any (more) big unifying theories to be had in, say, macroeconomics or sociology. What would it mean to be a 21st century Einstein of one of those fields, I wonder?

I'd start by looking at these lists.