LibraryMarkets and history · 2008

Economics Needs a Scientific Revolution

Jean-Philippe Bouchaud

A physicist argues economics failed to predict the crisis because it trusts models over data.

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Summary

Jean-Philippe Bouchaud of Capital Fund Management compares economics with physics and finds economics wanting: strong assumptions, weak attention to data, and a record of missing crises.

He calls for economics to rebuild on empirical evidence.

Source

Title
Economics Needs a Scientific Revolution
Author
Jean-Philippe Bouchaud
Year
2008
Published by
Nature
Length
8 pages
File
PDF · 999 KB

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