The Buzz: The 'Manhattan Project' of Economics

A group of economists and scientists are pointing to science to fix the "broken" American economy, positing that the crisis was caused by shortcomings in economic theory that scientific methods could potentially fix. But ScienceBlogger Jake Young is skeptical that this "Economic Manhattan Project" would be anything more than disastrous. "Why do we assume that scientists riding in like the cavalry will save the day?" he asks on Pure Pedantry.

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