October 14, 2024

Occasional Xs: The futile attempt to recycle Keynesianism (LXI)

 

“Years ago I heard Mr. Cobden say at a League Meeting that ‘Political Economy was the highest study of the human mind, for that the physical sciences required by no means so hard an effort.’” (Bagehot, 1885)

This topos is the standard excuse when economists are confronted with the fact that, compared to genuine sciences, economics as a Cargo Cult (Feynman's term) has achieved virtually nothing in 200+ years.