Economyths
Subtitle: ten ways economics gets it wrong
By: David Orrell
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Canada
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Mississauga, Ont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780470677933
Subjects: Crises financières; Economics; Financial crises; Prévision économique; Anticipations rationnelles (Théorie économique); Économie politique; Economic forecasting; Rational expectations (Economic theory)
Other titles: Econo-myths
Description: This book is written from the perspective of the applied mathematician, David Orrell. He states that economics is a mathematical model of human behaviour and the economy is dangerously unstable and unbalanced, and the risk models are unreliable.--[From introduction]
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-271) and index.
Table of contents: title: The anarchic economy; title: The connected economy; title: The unstable economy; title: The extreme economy; title: The emotional economy; title: The gendered economy; title: The unfair economy; title: The over-sized economy; title: The unhappy economy; title: The good economy.