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Economics as an anti-mathematical discipline (1)

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My talk to the Critical Realism seminar at Cambridge University last week. In contrast to my host Tony Lawson’s perspective on the inappropriateness of mathematical modeling for economics, I argue that economics is in fact anti-mathematical as it currently exists, since any truly mathematical discipline would have been completely transformed by the many mathematical results ...

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My talk to the Critical Realism seminar at Cambridge University last week. In contrast to my host Tony Lawson’s perspective on the inappropriateness of mathematical modeling for economics, I argue that economics is in fact anti-mathematical as it currently exists, since any truly mathematical discipline would have been completely transformed by the many mathematical results that have contradicted the foundation beliefs of Neoclassical economics.



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Steve Keen
Steve Keen (born 28 March 1953) is an Australian-born, British-based economist and author. He considers himself a post-Keynesian, criticising neoclassical economics as inconsistent, unscientific and empirically unsupported. The major influences on Keen's thinking about economics include John Maynard Keynes, Karl Marx, Hyman Minsky, Piero Sraffa, Augusto Graziani, Joseph Alois Schumpeter, Thorstein Veblen, and François Quesnay.

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