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Why do economists persist in modelling the economy with static tools when dynamic ones exist; why do they treat as stationery an entity which is forever changing?

— Steve Keen Debunking Economics - The Naked Emperor Of The Social Sciences (2001)

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Economics is not the Emperor of the social sciences, but the Humpty Dumpty.

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The belief that a capitalist economy is inherently stabilising is also one for which inhabitants of market economies may pay dearly in the future.

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Economic theory in general ignores processes which take time to occur, and instead assumes that everything occurs in equilibrium.

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Not even an economist can make time stand still (though some victims of economics lectures might dispute that!).

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