Tony Lawson - confronting mathematical modelling in economics // Bloomsbury Confrontations
Channel: Better Economics UCLU
Date: 2014-06-10

Tony Lawson, reader in economics at the University of Cambridge, argues that the 90%+ of economics taught in the Western world that is based on mathematical modelling is useless. He argues that it not only fails to provide insight into social reality, it obstructs other attempts to provide insight.

This presentation was given as part of a seminar entitled 'Confronting mathematical modelling in economics', which took place on 26th March 2014. This seminar was part of the Bloomsbury Confrontations seminar series organised by Better Economics UCLU. More info is available here: http://bettereconomicsuclu.tumblr.com/

Many thanks for Kaiying Yang for producing this video.