De la necedad de los economistas y otras cuestiones

Un ensayo de James M. Buchanan, premio nobel de economía sobre por qué los economistas estamos tan equivocados:

http://www.rmm-journal.de/downloads/010_buchanan.pdf

Unfortunately, economists, generally, failed to understand that aggregate variables

that may be measured with tolerable accuracy ex post may not be variables

subject to control, directly or even indirectly. The fundamental misconception

here lies in the understanding of what ‘the economy’ is. The ‘economic

problem’ is not (despite Lionel Robbins) an engineering problem that may be

defined simply as the allocation of scarce resources among alternative uses. The

economy, in some inclusive definitional sense, is perhaps best described as an

order that consists of an interlinked set of exchanges, simple and complex, from

which outcomes emerge that may in some respects be meaningfully measured

but that cannot be chosen, and thereby controlled, by concentrated decision takers.