tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13574471.post1088076515227409698..comments2023-06-04T08:57:25.996-04:00Comments on Hawking Up Hairballs: Economics Is Not A ScienceChuck Oliveroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09195467154207850276noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13574471.post-75464361504227976382009-03-03T09:05:00.000-05:002009-03-03T09:05:00.000-05:00In my reading I am finding a growing critique of t...In my reading I am finding a growing critique of the approach to economic study your writer describes. The idea is that classical Enlightenment economists, properly understood, intended their economic proscriptions to serve as pointed opposition to ancient feudalistic arrangements put in place at gunpoint.<BR/><BR/>Reducing economic thinking to self-referential models that must exclude reality to work at all is a victory for the oligarchy in their old-as-history campaign to keep the world feudalistic.<BR/><BR/>If you haven't read Shock Doctrine, I can't recommend it highly enough. It is a first step toward challenging the Chicago School lackeys. I'm also finding a growing number of financial thinkers (not necessarily economists, which is probably a good thing) that seem to live in the real world and have important things to say about our money system.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com