TY - BOOK AU - Orrell,David John TI - Economyths: ten ways economics gets it wrong SN - 9780470677933 AV - HB 3722 O75e 2010 U1 - 338.5/42 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Mississauga, Ont. PB - John Wiley & Sons Canada KW - CRV KW - Colección René Villarreal (CRV) KW - Economics KW - Financial crises KW - Rational expectations (Economic theory) KW - Economic forecasting KW - Crisis financiera KW - Economía KW - Previsión económica KW - Expectativas racionales (Teoría económica) N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-271) 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 -