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The economic imagination

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2023

Mike Hill and
Warren Montag
Mike Hill
Affiliation:
University of Albany, USA
Warren Montag*
Affiliation:
Occidental College, USA
*
Corresponding author: Warren Montag, OccidentalCollege, 1600 Campus Road, Los Angeles, CA 90041, USA. Email:montag@oxy.edu
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To apply the term ‘magical’ to modern economic thought is to suggest that there remains within it an unassimilated and unexamined residue of irrational thought. Further, it is to hold that this remnant persists despite the discipline's century long attempt to create a ‘pure’ form of economic science. The specific instance of irrationality to which we refer is perfectly visible but systematically overlooked because it exists in economics' most basic assumptions: not only the assumptions about the causal mechanisms that determine human action, but even more in what is increasingly acknowledged to be the theoretical Achilles heel of economics, the concept of the market itself.

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Forum: Money’s other worlds
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Finance and Society , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , 2015, pp. 34 - 37
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