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If you consider finance a subset of social science then the U.S. puts a lot of its best and brightest there.
Finance is not social science. I think it's more similar to engineering: you need to have a grasp of the underlying concepts and be able to do the math, but the real world will screw you up on a very regular basis and so you need to be able to deal with that.
Behavioral finance is supposedly a big thing.
Taking psychology into consideration doesn't make finance a social science any more than sociological factors make civil engineering a social science.
Hedge funds do manage to employ the best and brightest, on the other hand I'm not sure whether the same is true for the academic subject of finance.