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University Thoughts that led to the creation of this journal ".
. . 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.” "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 "Economics is supposed to be social science,
i.e. an intellectual discipline resting upon empirically-observed facts, in
which mathematics and conceptual frameworks are tools for understanding.
But in contemporary mainstream economics, the tools are often in the driver's
seat, declaring evident facts impossible and reducing the subtleties of the
real world to whatever clockwork economists
best know how to build." Ian
Fletcher “Modern
economics is sick. Economics has increasingly become an intellectual game
played for its own sake and not for its practical consequences for
understanding the economic world. Economists have converted the subject into
a sort of social mathematics in which analytical rigour is everything and
practical relevance is nothing.” “. . . the close to
monopoly position of neoclassical economics is not compatible with normal
ideas about democracy. Economics is
science in some senses, but is at the same time ideology. Limiting economics to the neoclassical
paradigm means imposing a serious ideological limitation. Departments of economics become political
propaganda centers . . .” “Economics students . . . graduate from Masters
and PhD programs with an effectively vacuous understanding of economics, no
appreciation of the intellectual history of their discipline, and an approach
to mathematics that hobbles both their critical understanding of economics
and their ability to appreciate the latest advances in mathematics and other
sciences. A minority of these
ill-informed students themselves go on to be academic economists, and they
repeat the process. Ignorance is perpetuated”
Steve
Keen “The human economy has passed from an “empty
world” era in which human-made capital was the limiting factor in economic
development to the current “full world” era in which remaining natural
capital has become the limiting factor “ Robert
Costanza “Most courses deal with an ‘imaginary world,’ and
have no link whatsoever with concrete problems.” “All of these textbooks fail to explain how prices
are determined in ‘markets’’ and thus how markets work. Where do prices come from? Who determines them? How do they fluctuate? These questions are never addressed, even
though it is through the price mechanism that the ‘invisible hand’ is
supposed to operate.” “. . . mainstream
economists seek knowledge through numbers to stop the messy reality of
people, processes and politics dirtying their invisible hands.” “Multinationals are everywhere except in economic
theories and economics departments.” Grazia Ietto-Gillies “. . . the economist must engage him or herself as a citizen with
convictions regarding the public good and ways of treating it, rather than as
the holder of universal truth that he or she substitutes for discussion in
order to impose it on us all.”
“There is an urgent need for a more realistic
economics of the environment, with theories and analyses that can help to
create environmentally sustainable economic activity.” Frank
Ackerman “Modern economics is not very successful as an
explanatory endeavour. This much is accepted by most serious commentators on
the discipline, including many of its most prominent exponents” Tony
Lawson “Because mathematics has swamped the curricula in
leading universities and graduate schools, student economists are neither
encouraged nor equipped to analyze real world economies and institutions.” Geoffrey
M. Hodgson “. . . the concepts of
uneconomic growth, accumulating illth, and
unsustainable scale have to be incorporated in economic theory if it is to be
capable of expressing what is happening in the world. This is what ecological
economists are trying to do.” Herman
E. Daly “The application of mathematics to economics has
proved largely unsuccessful because it is based on a misleading analogy
between economics and physics. Economics would do much better to model itself
on another very successful area, namely medicine, and, like much of medicine,
to adopt a qualitative causal methodology.” Donald
Gillies “Economic history courses have been disappearing
from classrooms across the world. Once a compulsory part of economics
education, they have been relegated to the remote corners of ‘options’ and
even closed down.” Ha-Joon Chang “In Smith is a forgotten lesson that the
foundation of success in creating a constructive classical liberal society
lies in the individuals’ adherence to a common social ethics. According to
Smith, virtue serves as ‘the fine polish to the wheels of
society’ while vice is ‘like the vile rust, which makes them jar and
grate upon one another.’ Indeed, Smith sought to distance his thesis from
that of Mandeville and the implication that individual greed could be the
basis for social good. Smith’s deistic universe might not sit well with those
of post-enlightenment sensibilities, but his understanding that virtue is a
prerequisite for a desirable market society remains an important lesson. For
Smith ethics is the hero-not self-interest or greed-for it is ethics that
defend social intercourse from the Hobbesian chaos.” Charles
K. Wilber “. . . conventional
economics . . . remains fixated on the view that economics is the physics of
society. In other words, most of the
profession behaves as if there were a single universally valid view of the
world that needs only to be applied.” Paul
Ormerod
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