Economists Have No Clothes

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2009Author
Buchanan, James M.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.22029/jlupub-342Abstract
Why have economists had so little meaningful to say about the 2008 crises? Where and when did the `science' get off the track? Can anything be done to restore respectability to Economics as a useful area of inquiry? This short essay examines these questions.
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Rationality, markets, and morals: RMM 0 (2009), 151-156