I’m not a fan of tribalism, and I hope you can acknowledge that economics and psychology are concerned with quite different slices and levels of decision-making. Economics handwaves a LOT of indiidual variance and choice into averages and generalities, and completely ignores all of the non-legible activities and behaviors people engage in. Economics is nearly useless in figuring out why I’d rather read trashy sci-fi than code for a few more hours, for instance.
I agree that the modeling of individual humans is WAY harder and psychology has fewer “hard” models than I wish it had. I often suspect economics has too many models, with more and more epicycles added, because they’re failing to see some irreducible complexity, and because they’re ignoring a lot of illegible motivational inputs.
I’m not a fan of tribalism, and I hope you can acknowledge that economics and psychology are concerned with quite different slices and levels of decision-making. Economics handwaves a LOT of indiidual variance and choice into averages and generalities, and completely ignores all of the non-legible activities and behaviors people engage in. Economics is nearly useless in figuring out why I’d rather read trashy sci-fi than code for a few more hours, for instance.
I agree that the modeling of individual humans is WAY harder and psychology has fewer “hard” models than I wish it had. I often suspect economics has too many models, with more and more epicycles added, because they’re failing to see some irreducible complexity, and because they’re ignoring a lot of illegible motivational inputs.