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“By any reasonable criteria, the discipline of economics as a whole, in its present state, is sadly lacking.”

Quote by Paul Ormerod

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Paul Ormerod is a British economist born in 1969. He has conducted extensive research in the field of economics, particularly in the areas of economic behavior and complex systems theory. Ormerod's work often explores the irrationality of economic decisions and the instability of markets. more

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“Keynes tried to show that market economies could settle in equilibrium states in which the labour market did not clear, and in which the level of unemployment was high. He believed that this was due to a particular example of market failure, developed in his concept of effective demand.”

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“Even in financial markets, the concept of market efficiency does not hold.”

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“Many Europeans, while admiring the strength and power of the American economy, undoubtedly feel that the system of social values which prevails in the United States, manifested in the acute problems evident in the inner cities and the level of violent crime, for example, leaves much to be desired.”

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