Mathematical Modelling and Ideology in the Economics Academy: competing explanations of the failings of the modern discipline?

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Limitations of human capital theory* (2019, background): “…in much of social science reflects a society-wide belief that mathematics is fundamental to science, a conviction (or ideology) that derives not just from the elegant simplification permitted by mathematics, but also from the success of mathematical precision in many domains (Lawson 2012, 16).”