How to use mathematics fruitfully in economics without turning it into a magic wand and becoming involved in magical thinking that only produces the illusion of knowledge instead of the sought-after knowledge.
Fixing the Economists
Proud to Be a Nihilist: Bill Mitchell on Econometrics and Numerical Prediction
Philip Pilkington
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Quote from Dave Talbott: "Forget the math until you have got a basis in observation and experiment to direct the mathematician...."
What I see in the academe of economics is that there is NEVER "a BASIS in observation and experiment" but they bring the mathematicians in anyway.
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