What Questions Do Economists Answer, or Why Is Human Behavior More Important Than Formulas? A New Episode of the Podcast "It's Not That Complicated"

In the second episode of the School of Computational Social Sciences' podcast "It's Not That Complicated," host Maria Svetlichnaya is joined by Yulia Vymyatnina, Director of the School's Economics programs, and Kirill Borisov, Professor in the same field.

The conversation focuses on economics as a science, exploring topics such as:

• Human behavior
• The limits of forecasting
• Goodhart's law
• Human (ir)rationality
• How economics differs from physics and chemistry
• And the actual role mathematics plays in economics (you might be surprised!).

The discussion also touches upon self-fulfilling prophecies, envy, experiments, and economic imperialism.

You can listen to the episode on mave.