As I see it, the economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth. --- 克鲁格曼认为,经济学家作为一个群体,整体地迷失了,以至于对经济金融危机毫无预测能力。原因是,他们把经济学模型里的beautiful mathematics 误认为是现实了。这听起来蛮像中国古代满嘴“之乎者也”百无一用的书生。