Some Thoughts on the Contentious State of Economics: Why So? What to Do?
This brief note, commenting on the disorderly state of the discipline, identifies several causes of disagreement, concluding that a major source of dissention amongst economists is over the question of how to “do” economics: whether or not attempts—as by “neoclassical” and “new classical” schools of thought—to emulate the methods of natural sciences such as physics are more likely to bring understanding or result in distortion of the subject matter.