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The Trouble with Expertise

In a compelling September 3 New York Times Magazine piece, economist Paul Krugman asks, “How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?” Among the many indictments: As I see it, the economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth. Until the Great Depression, most economists clung to [...]

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