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Mar 22 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Yesterday in an elevator, I ran into a finance professor—I explained to him I once was an economics major, but became an English major
With horror he asked “Why would you switch from Economics to English?”
Y’all. I’d waited MY WHOLE LIFE FOR THAT QUESTION FROM A FINANCE PROF
I was like “By the time I got to the 400 level Econ courses, I noticed that, rather than justifying the underlying assumptions of our discipline, they were throwing calculus into models with no grounding. It was like Nietzsche quote, ‘They muddy the water to make it seem deep’”
