If you read LW you are likely the kind of person who, after massive study, would agree with economists on microeconomic issues
Let me provide a data point for you: I have studied this issue sufficiently well. I have NOT come to the conclusions which you expect.
microeconomics is really math and logical reasoning applied to human behavior
Yes, but badly applied :-D Economics is only starting to realize that actual live humans are not Homo economicus and that equilibrium models of systems with omniscient fully rational agents driven solely by the desire to have more money are not much like the real world.
Once economists leave the rarefied atmosphere of DSGE models and such and have to deal with the reality-provided empirical data, they can hardly agree on anything. A recent case in point—the Piketty book.
Let me provide a data point for you: I have studied this issue sufficiently well. I have NOT come to the conclusions which you expect.
Yes, but badly applied :-D Economics is only starting to realize that actual live humans are not Homo economicus and that equilibrium models of systems with omniscient fully rational agents driven solely by the desire to have more money are not much like the real world.
Once economists leave the rarefied atmosphere of DSGE models and such and have to deal with the reality-provided empirical data, they can hardly agree on anything. A recent case in point—the Piketty book.