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To add onto what Mr. Dubner is saying here, some behavioral economists are even applying their expertise to other areas of econ, like macro, with what appears to be some success.

Behavioral and experimental economics are doing a lot for the field in that way. A lot of the material coming out of those two subfields very much centers on the fact that humans behave like... Well, humans, and not "econs". They don't always behave in the perfectly rational way that many of our models predict. I think that, long-term, this'll improve the entire field of economics quite a bit.

Age of Empires was my first video game, and I played Age of Kings and The Conquerors nearly exclusively for several years. I loved AoM, too. The Age games remain some of my favorites, and I was always curious after Ensemble Studios shut down: did you guys have any plans to continue along a historical timeline with the Age of Empires series, like an AoE 4 based on the World Wars or something to that effect?