haganah
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Not to completely derail this thread (is that even possible anymore) but how is economics (or any other discipline) not "academic"? And while we're on it, since you're talking about MIT which is known for its engineering and math whizzes, I'll tell you that I've seen more math genuises perform very poorly in economics classes than I can count. As good as they are at the math, they could not grasp the intuition or put the mathematics into words. It was all equations and numbers with no meaning. b (an economist, obviously)
Funny how all those quant geniuses at Chicago attended classes that weren't focused on words. Same with the kids at the "other" big Econ school, Harvard. I guess they just sucked at Economics and should have attended state schools.