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Economics versus Reality: How to be Effective in the Real World in Spite of Economic Theory

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Economics versus reality: How to be effective in the real world in spite of economic theory

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John M. Legge shows the many ways in which the real world diverges from economics textbooks. He argues that mainstream economic theory took a disastrous turn 140 years ago, when it attempted to use calculus to explain human behaviour. A real economy involves people who are not variables in equations…