Beware of the Alchemists

A Mark Buchanan article in Bloomberg last week was called “Beware of Economists Peddling Elegant Models”.  In it, the theoretical physicist proposes that – “Mathematics can be beguilingly elegant. It can also be dangerous when people mistake its elegance for truth.   Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity might be the best example of elegant math, […]

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