". . . economics has become increasingly an arcane branch of mathematics rather than dealing
with real economic problems"
Milton Friedman
"[Economics as taught] in America's graduate schools... bears testimony to a triumph of
ideology over science."
Joseph Stiglitz
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"Existing economics is a theoretical [meaning mathematical] system which floats in the air and
which bears little relation to what happens in the real world"
Ronald Coase
"We live in an uncertain and ever-changing world that is continually evolving in new and novel
ways. Standard theories are of little help in this context. Attempting to understand economic,
political and social change requires a fundamental recasting of the way we think"
Douglass North
"Page after page of professional economic journals are filled with mathematical formulas […]
Year after year economic theorists continue to produce scores of mathematical models and to
explore in great detail their formal properties; and the econometricians fit algebraic functions of
all possible shapes to essentially the same sets of data"
Wassily Leontief
"Today if you ask a mainstream economist a question about almost any aspect of economic life,
the response will be: suppose we model that situation and see what happens…modern
mainstream economics consists of little else but examples of this process"
Robert Solow
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