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12 Sept 2018 Conversations with Tyler Michele Gelfand on Tight and Loose Cultures
“I would say that economics can be somewhat atheoretical in the sense that psychologists are concerned with mediating mechanisms.”
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- 12 Sept 2018
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…You can be harsh. I would say that economics can be somewhat atheoretical in the sense that psychologists are concerned with mediating mechanisms. What explains the phenomenon? Whenever I’ve given a talk to economists, and I try to open up the black box of what I’m talking about, they lose interest very quickly. “Why do you need to understand the mechanism? Just give me what the effects are.” I’m not saying all economists are like this. I’ve spent quite a bit of time with people up at Harvard — Nathan Nunn, other people — that really do care about these things, so I don’t want to overgeneralize. I also think experimental economics has another set of problems, but . . . No, tell us, please.…
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