"The economy is too important to be left to economists."

"In your book, you harshly criticize economics, accusing it of an "ahistorical simplification of complex relationships." What do you mean by that?
Starting with Adam Smith, economics has made important observations about capitalism. At the end of the 19th century, it became an independent discipline of experts who wanted to explain economics separately from historical and political contexts. In this process, much complexity was lost in the discourse."

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