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davidw wrote: Economics is generally a pretty good way of thinking about problems like that - one of the best there is. But it's certainly a system that is far from perfect, and Munger points out some of its defects in an effective way, without going overboard and trashing the whole discipline, as some do.
Of course, one can go overboard and trash nearly the whole of the subject in a disciplined and scholarly way. Indeeed, the results of this appeal to me, which is why Robert Vienneau's Thoughts on Economics is one of my favourite weblogs.

bagder wrote of Fred Brooks' classic: Large portions of it feels of the age and there’s a lot of talk about Fortran, System/360 and PL-1 as if we should know about them. We should know about these languages and systems, if we want to really understand how the language design and software engineering issues that we face today in modern languages came about. Checking out LtU's history department can help you make inroads into this, especially the stories with "HOPL" in them.