What Thomas Piketty thinks about mathematics
French economist at the Paris School of Economics, born in 1971; author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century (French edition 2013, English 2014).
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1 dated position, c. 2013, in their own words. Our reading of what Thomas Piketty has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsTo 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.
↗Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Harvard University Press, 2017 paperback; tr. Arthur Goldhammer)books.google.com All 2 from this book