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Economics is a fascinating field that we feel has been stunted by those who have misdirected it for other purposes. As the challenges of increasing basic resource scarcity grow ever greater as we progress into the twenty-first century, economics will have to mature as a field. Instead of hiding its biases behind the façade of a pseudoscience, it will need to become a social science in the best sense of the word if our civilization is to survive. It will need to be far more rigorous about how much is science (objective, mathematical modeling of truth), and how much is political economy and even moral philosophy dressed up as mathematical economics. This means being up-front about being political, about whose and which interests are served. Only people, like you, can demand that the discipline of economics demonstrate the rigor it claims for itself, and we hope that this book has furthered that process.

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