As an historian, I am somewhat appalled at the inability of economists, including those on this blog to get the history of their own discipline straight. The obsession has been with neoclassical economic’s attempt to turn economics into a physico-mathematical discipline as Walras phrased it, and the economists usually discuss this attempt within the historical context of their discipline pre-1945, with references, to Walras, Marshall, Keynes, and others. It became clear to me over...
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