TY - BOOK AU - Orrell,David TI - Economyths: ten ways economics gets it wrong SN - 9781848311480 (pbk.) PY - 2010/// CY - London PB - Icon Books Ltd KW - Economics KW - Financial crises KW - Rational expectations (Economic theory) KW - Economic forecasting N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The anarchic economy -- The connected economy -- The unstable economy -- The extreme economy -- The emotional economy -- The gendered economy -- The unfair economy -- The over-sized economy -- The unhappy economy -- The good economy N2 - This book is written from the perspective of the applied mathematician, David Orrell. He states that economics is a mathematical model of human behaviour and the economy is dangerously unstable and unbalanced, and the risk models are unreliable.--[From introduction] ER -