David Orrell, a mathematician who works on biological problems, recently published a book called Economyths: Ten Ways Economics Gets It Wrong. Economyths is a terrible, willfully ignorant, deeply anti-intellectual book. The characterization of economic thought presented is ridiculous. The level of scholarship is abysmal.
A few of the amazing (-ly wrong) things I learned about economics from this book:
・ Economists insist on using math.
・ Economists just don’t understand scarcity.
・ Economists have never heard of emergent properties.
・ Economists categorically reject bubbles everywhere and always.
・ Economists believe economic growth is always and everywhere a good thing.
・ Economists believe money and happiness are the same thing.