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Flat White

The death of social science

11 November 2024

10:29 AM

11 November 2024

10:29 AM

Speaking at a debate hosted by the LSE Student Union, Lord Robert Skidelsky critiqued the state of economics today, characterising the field’s current focus as ‘too much maths and too little history’.

This characterisation will not come as a surprise to undergraduate economics students who struggle with the plethora of equations they encounter.

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