User talk:Imareaver

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Piandcompany (talk) 01:03, 21 July 2012 (UTC)

MIT and Economics

My opinion: It should not surprise anyone that a "tech" school like MIT has Nobel laureates in economics. I went to Caltech, and not only did our economists run models on supercomputers, the game theorists had a habit of putting test subjects in the MRI machine. Despite a history in the "social sciences", economics for a number of decades has been an increasingly technical field. As such, economists can often benefit from proximity to computing and mathematical resources, the best of which are frequently found at schools specializing in Math/Physics/Computer Science. Having neurobiologists around can also be a plus. And any tech school that wants its students to actually take social science classes, will tend to hire economics professors who are strong in math and modeling, as well as social theory.Elriana (talk) 20:28, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

I understand that. But I don't think every reader will, hence the use of the word "stereotypically." And that was just an example, I personally think that the sorting by type of prize is interesting in its own right. In any case, no one's proposed a better method that isn't as time-consuming as sorting by date of prize would be.Imareaver (talk) 22:54, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

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