“This ascendancy of economic theory has not made the world a better place. Instead, it has made an already troubled society worse: more unequal, more unstable, and less 'efficient.”

—  Steve Keen

Preface, p. xiv
Debunking Economics - The Naked Emperor Of The Social Sciences (2001)

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