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A Reminder from Berlin — Peter Radford

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I would not lay the issues entirely at the feet of economics, but Peter Radford has a point worth considering.As I have been saying, it is impossible to approach most interesting and important issues in life with without a systems view, which necessitates improving this view with feedback as the natural sciences do. Conventional economics pretends to be a natural science but has no comprehensive systems view of a subject matter that is social and political as well as economic. The result is as Peter Radford asserts. Disaster.BTW, the MMT approach doesn't fix this either since it is analysis of a narrow subject matter. It lays a foundation but a superstructure needs to be built on that foundation of institutional analysis of monetary production societies (note: not "economies").The

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 I would not lay the issues entirely at the feet of economics, but Peter Radford has a point worth considering.

As I have been saying, it is impossible to approach most interesting and important issues in life with without a systems view, which necessitates improving this view with feedback as the natural sciences do. 

Conventional economics pretends to be a natural science but has no comprehensive systems view of a subject matter that is social and political as well as economic. The result is as Peter Radford asserts. Disaster.

BTW, the MMT approach doesn't fix this either since it is analysis of a narrow subject matter. It lays a foundation but a superstructure needs to be built on that foundation of institutional analysis of monetary production societies (note: not "economies").

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Xavier Vives must have tenure.
 
Xavier Vives, Professor of Economics and Finance and Academic Director of the Public-Private Sector Research Center at IESE Business School.
Originally published at VoxEU

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