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THE indictment is that “ the economic theory of to-day is useless because it is unintelligible ; because, after all their arduous studies, the economists cannot be relied upon not to give diametrically opposite diagnoses and prognoses of the same situation... ; because the economists feed on their own tails by busying themselves with the analysis of imaginary worlds which they themselves have invented ; and because they are passing off as the result of purely scientific inquiry what is in reality no more than a partisan advocacy of particular social policies”.
Lament for Economics
By Barbara Wootton. Pp. 322. (London: George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., 1938.) 6s. net.
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ROWE, J. Lament for Economics. Nature 141, 996 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141996a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/141996a0