Collaboration Quote by Thomas Piketty

“...the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often highly ideological speculation, at the expense of historical research and collaboration with the other social sciences.” quote by Thomas Piketty — Download Open image

“...the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often highly ideological speculation, at the expense of historical research and collaboration with the other social sciences.”

Thomas Piketty

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Collaboration Discipline Economics Expenses Get over Historical Historical research Ideological Mathematics Over it Passion Research Science Social Social science Speculation Theoretical

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Without precisely defined sources, methods, and concepts, it is possible to see absolutely everything and its opposite.

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