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RiKD  United States. Sep 12 2015 18:42. Posts 8548 | | |
"To put it bluntly, the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often highly ideological speculation, at the expense of historical research and collaboration with the other social sciences. Economists are all too often preoccupied with petty mathematical problems of interest only to themselves. This obsession with mathematics is an easy way of acquiring the appearance of scientifically without having to answer the far more complex questions posed by the world we live in."
- Thomas Piketty, Adbusters, Blueprint for a New World V: Politico, Nov/Dec 2014 - #116 - Vol. 22 No. 6
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Rinny United States. Sep 12 2015 19:53. Posts 600 | | |
Math is for gaywads I'd rather smoke weed |
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That is kinda like bashing theoretical staticians because they aren't applying their skills to sabermetrics and making baseball teams better.
Economists aren't destroying the world through idealism, the couple evil genius ones at the federal reserve making malicious decisions are |
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Rapoza Brasil. Sep 13 2015 00:28. Posts 1612 | | | |
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lucky331 . Sep 13 2015 02:01. Posts 1124 | | |
What solution does the author propose? |
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k4ir0s Canada. Sep 13 2015 04:30. Posts 3476 | | |
| | On September 12 2015 23:28 Rapoza wrote:
i am having a hard time to understand this part:
"at the expense of historical research and collaboration with the other social sciences"
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economists need to consider the other social sciences ( history, political science, sociology) rather than solely depend on mathematics |
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Rapoza Brasil. Sep 13 2015 05:37. Posts 1612 | | | |
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Spitfiree Bulgaria. Sep 13 2015 16:51. Posts 9634 | | |
He s probably refering to the "Annales School " - french school of history
Anyways thats the infinite battle of political economy and economics |
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