Last December Richard Horton – editor of the Lancet – posted a number of tweets critical of economics and economists. I and two professional colleagues – Prof David Parkin from King’s College London and Prof Alan Maynard at the University of York – felt we had to rise to the bait. And so we wrote a retort. This was published by the Lancet on October 2nd . Our response starts with a preface from Horton.
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