Yang (Aurelia) Li

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I really want to understand how social institutions, customs, beliefs, and attitudes shape human social behavior. Especially how these factors shape minorities' lives alongside this.

Philosophically, historically, sociologically, biologically: why does something exist, how did it come to be? Has it changed or been different at different points in time?

When we study something, like Kant said, we need to cautiously clarify its category. By clarifying the concept, we can then say cleanly and without blind confidence, as math always gives us certainty: this is what I found! Under these conditions.

I believe economic behavior is only the appearance of human behavior, which can only signify what already happened, not why it happened. By using causal inference, we can only partially know the reason. But if we want to understand the whole picture, we need to know everything outside of economics as well.

By forming theory using mathematical language, we need to carefully axiomatize our language, cautiously understanding what needs to be axiomatized and what doesn't.

Finally, we need to overcome our confidence that we can explain everything using causal inference and math. Axiomatizing this discipline is a beautiful dream, but one careless step and it's easy to fall into a trap. Numbers and certainty are beautiful, but what we ultimately face is an uncertain world.