I’ve finished Abram’s new book on competition. It is rewarding but hard. The most revealing passage is on page 288 after 100’s of pages of math. Abrams asks:
“Why have the aspects of [competition theory] been ignored?... A scientific approach to this question… is not possible, [but it may involve] the economics and sociology of the research environment.”
Makes me wonder if us theory folks need to focus less on the math and much more on the "economics and sociology of research environment".
@GodsoeWilliam once you go down that dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny.
@psmaldino yes, but is the dark path the math... or the paying attention to sociology and economics???
@GodsoeWilliam haha, the math helps for sure, but it’s definitely the latter. I’ve written some stuff on this using some evo modeling approaches. Here are a few in case you’re interested.
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.160384
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/26339137221131816
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17456916231182568
