CAMBRIDGE – Ever since the late nineteenth century, when economics, increasingly embracing mathematics and statistics, developed scientific pretensions, its practitioners have been accused of a variety of sins. The charges – including hubris, neglect of social goals beyond incomes, excessive attention to formal techniques, and failure to predict major economic developments such as financial crises – have usually come from outsiders, or from a heterodox fringe.
美国剑桥—十九世纪末以来，日益数学化和统计化的经济学表现出科学的虚荣，而经济学界被指责犯下了各种罪行。这些指控——包括傲慢、无视收入以外的社会目标、过度专注于正规技术、没能预测到金融危机等重大经济发展态势等——常常来自外部人士非正统的边缘派。但最近，似乎经济学的领导者也开始感到不快了。