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Economics is too taken with mathematics and theory, at the expense of history and the other social sciences

Drawn from what Thomas Piketty said

Subjectmathematics
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mathematics Doing mathematics: proof, conjecture, and what mathematicians want that other fields do not.

What Thomas Piketty actually said

  1. Thomas Piketty French economist at the Paris School of Economics
    To put it bluntly, the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often highly ideological speculation, at the expense of historical research and collaboration with the other social sciences.

    Where this was said

    ↗Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Harvard University Press, 2017 paperback; tr. Arthur Goldhammer)books.google.com

    c. 2013

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