Every so often I feel that economics has started to get a little too math-heavy. Today's evidence of this trend: I was sitting at a classmate's desk and I noticed he was reading "Mathematics for Physicists." I took "Mathematics for Economists" (14.102) during my first semester as an economics graduate student, and I thought that was plenty of mathematics.
One of my favorite economic theories actually comes from chemistry, so perhaps I should be more open-minded to borrowing rigorous methods from the hard(er) sciences. Lately, though, I've been thinking hard about urban decline and unemployment, and many days I feel like more math is the last thing I need to shed new light on these old problems.
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