L'uso della matematica in economia non la rende una disciplina con un maggior rigore scientifico ma ha una funzione di legittimazione e la rende molto simile all'astrologia come veniva praticata nella Cina imperiale.
"The failure of the field to predict the 2008 crisis has also been well-documented. In 2003, for example, only five years before the Great Recession, the Nobel Laureate Robert E Lucas Jr told the American Economic Association that ‘macroeconomics […] has succeeded: its central problem of depression prevention has been solved’. Short-term predictions fair little better – in April 2014, for instance, a survey of 67 economists yielded 100 per cent consensus: interest rates would rise over the next six months. Instead, they fell. A lot."
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