Economics Unmasked

His case was similar to that of Frederick Soddy, a Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, who in the early 1920s wrote a couple of books through which it became evident that he understood economics better than most economists; for this he was of course ridiculed and excommunicated by the economics establishment, and his books were banned from the reading lists of students

they decide to familiarize themselves with the discipline.

This joint intellectual and spiritual adventure with Philip has been one of the most enriching experiences in my life. It was also fascinating to personally witness how easy it is for natural scientists to discover the many inconsistencies and mathematical absurdities of economics once

During his navigation through those three metres of books, h

he realized not only that neoclassical economics was a pseudo-science full of inconsistencies and failings, as a consequence of its effort to look as similar as possible to physics, but also that the primary purpose of the discipline, in its neoclassical version, was to serve the function of defending the status quo of wealth and power. It was a discipline clearly divorced from any possibility of social justice.

This book is the result of a long dialogue between a physicist and an economist.