Aspiring economists should take as many math and statistics courses as they can stomach

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• Among the leading candidates for greatest economist of all time, Adam Smith was analytically the weakest, save perhaps Malthus. TCTyler Cowen1 Oct 2023economists
• An inability to see the viewpoints of people unlike oneself is a genuine weakness in a social scientist, not merely a separate moral failing. TCTyler Cowen1 Oct 2023economists
• College is not a good career investment for most of the population. BCBryan Caplan19 Feb 2025economists
• Competition that removes differentiation makes everyone worse off, because it assumes people already know what they want. RSRory Sutherland9 Dec 2025economists
• Cumrun Vafa's 'dark dimension' torsion balance experiment does not amount to a genuine testable prediction of string theory. PWPeter Woit26 Aug 2026economists

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