[SystemSafety] Bounded rationality or ignorance?

[Olwen Morgan]

I'd also recommend "The Economic Naturalist" by Robert Frank, who IMO is 
better than Harford.

On the other hand, whether you are reading professional or popular 
economics texts, a good deal of scepticism is in order. Economists are 
almost as bad as software engineers in the way they use mathematics. 
Useful sanity checks can be found in:

1.    Keen, Steve, Debunking Economics, Zed Books, 2ed, 2011, ISBN-10: 
1848139923,ISBN-13:978-1848139923ASIN:1848139926

and

2.    A Guide to What's Wrong with Economics, Fulbrook, E. (ed.), Anthem 
Press (12 Oct. 2004), ISBN-10: 1843311485, ISBN-13: 978-1843311485, 
ASIN: 1843311488


Hope it helps,

O


On 11/10/18 14:25, Martyn Thomas wrote:
>
> I recommend the writings of Tim Harford, the "undercover economost" 
> from the FT. His books are a crash course in understanding why the 
> world is the way it is. And extremely readable.
>
> Martyn
>
>
> On 11/10/2018 13:59, Olwen Morgan wrote:
>> In fact, though I won't set any of them out here, after much time 
>> reading in economics, my opinions on what I've seen of economics and 
>> economists are, even on a good day, largely unprintable.
>>
>> Olwen
>>
>
>
>
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