Epicycles and neoclassical economics
Channel: Paul Cockshott
Date: 2018-09-25

This is one of two videos that compares the unscientific character of neo-classical economics unfavourably with the epicycle theory of Ptolemy's astronomy. It first explains in some detail the geometry behind the epicycle theory, which has in recent years been reduced almost to a term of abuse.
Slides here https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eWkf2fF6Yp_lEiKx9GexrGi9yva8bAOm/view?usp=sharing

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