Mainstream economics scholarship produces theory without facts ("pure theory") and facts without theory ("applied economics"). (Michel Chossudovsky)

Mainstream economics scholarship produces theory without facts ("pure theory") and facts without theory ("applied economics").

Michel Chossudovsky

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