September 5, 2009

Krugman on "Math in Economics"

I guess Paul Krugman has done a little math in his career. He responds to critics who have painted him with the broad brush as an opponent of mathematical modeling in economics.

Kurgman Blog Post

What I objected to in the mag article was the tendency to identify good math with good work.

Sources:

Paul Krugman blog, September 11, 2009.

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1 comment:

libhom said...

Charlatans like Milton Friedman were adept at creating internally consistent mathematical models that bore no relationship to the real world.