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  If anyone was wondering what my exact beef with economics is, I just found my final undergrad philosophy paper . (I was lucky and got free rein on question choice, so of course at once I chose to beat up on economics.) It's pretty derivative of Phil Mirowski, Steve Keen and John Emerson , but the framework is new. And from the writing style you can see why my markers often had a problem with me. Given the word limit, it's just a sketch of a vast topic - and embarrassingly sketchy on the history, sociology and technical economic details (i.e. failing at everything that I accuse PE of) - but most of it strikes me as crudely true and worthy of a careful book in future.

  " Gr eat fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum, And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on, While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on ." - Augustus De Morgan   I do maths these days. But, even studying the elementary things I am, I get vertigo off the scale of the differences in mathematical ability. It's super-logarithmic. Let's torture a metaphor: God : Euler. Cos of his thousand instinctive transformations, foundation of the modern manner, and being 200 years ahead of his time. Hear us testify! "I discovered the works of Euler and my perception of the nature of mathematics underwent a dramatic transformation. I was... expelled from the Cantorian paradise." - Alexander Stepanov "Like a Shakespearean sonnet that captures the very essence of love, or a painting that brings out the beauty of the human form th...