Writer Nat Dyer on how David Ricardo's abstract models pushed economics into fantasy — and we all paid the price ...
External shocks from within our country, or from the rest of the world, will be addressed nimbly. Our central bank can micromanage a complex $23 trillion economy. This all is madness. Yes ...
numerical models to explain the social world." You also discuss how, even if Ricardo didn't articulate it this way, he was the origin of the concept of "homo economicus," or economic man.