The Science of Economics

Author: Fesenmaier, Kimm

Published in: Caltech Magazine, Volume 78, Number 3, 2015, pp. 20-23

Part of: Engineering and Science, Volume 78:3, Fall 2015

Item Category: Feature Articles

Persistent URL: https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechES:20250204-232629800

Abstract

John Ledyard is an economist, but when he talks about the work that he and his colleagues who study socioeconomic systems at Caltech have completed over the last decade with the support of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, he looks to astronomy for an appropriate metaphor.

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