As Keynes said: "The master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts .... He must be mathematician, historian, statesman, programmer, philosopher -- in some degree. He must understand symbols, write code, and speak in words. He must contemplate the particular, in terms of the general, and touch abstract and concrete in the same flight of thought. He must study the present in the light of the past for the purposes of the future. He must be able to speak a common language with a computer scientist, a physicist and a sociologist. No part of man's nature or his institutions must be entirely outside his regard. He must be purposeful and disinterested in a simultaneous mood, as aloof and incorruptible as an artist, yet sometimes as near to earth as a politician.”
OK, maybe I've added something there to make my point.
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