Who wrote this: "Economics is surely the only discipline in which a scholar
can win the Nobel Prize for proving the existence of that which plainly does
not exist."
Ian
Albert Hirshman said somethin like that, but not quite: I paraphrased it this
way in my Natural Instability book.
In the sciences, joint Nobel Prizes are given to collaborators, where in
economics, the prize is sometimes split between two persons who have worked to
disprove the other's work (Hir
F.M. Scherer; referring to General Equilibrium in "New Perspectives on
Economic Growth and Technological Innovation"
Is economics a discipline where math is consciously used for fictive
purposes [as in GE] or is it just because economists have worse luck at
finding/creating math that refers to re
