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Lumifer comments on Stupid Questions December 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

16 Post author: Gondolinian 08 December 2014 03:39PM

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Comment author: Lumifer 10 December 2014 07:35:30PM 2 points [-]

I'm looking for the intellectual tools that would be used to ask these questions in a more rigorous way

The field of study that deals with this is called economics. Any reason an intro textbook won't suit you?