‘Within the cathedral of mainstream economics, there are many chapels devoted to specialised problems’
IS economics a religion? Paul Krugman argued recently in his Aug 21, New York Times column that the policy elite of central bankers, finance ministers and politicians are “acting like priests of an ancient cult, demanding that we engage in human sacrifices to appease the anger of invisible gods.”
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