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To: Lane3 who wrote (15628)	4/20/2017 4:31:47 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 364819

The idea that economic thinking would be a more sophisticated approach to solving society's problems then addressing the entire array of social sciences makes no sense to me. As you mention, economics is one of the social sciences. There is not a university in the world that teaches the idea that you can understand all of social science through one of the disciplines. Although that is exactly what the right wing thinks and why they have been so wrong for so long. Social science is not a fractal and you can't generalize from the particular to the general. You have to take all of the social sciences together in order to figure out how best a society is to function. Someone once said:" the sophistication with which one solves a hypothesis is dependent upon how many variables they can hold in consideration at any given time."