Thursday, October 27, 2011

I love Economics!

I really love Economics. Simple, elegant, beautiful, understandable; just about the characteristics that I look for in my soul mate (yes, understandable, which is may be why I am still single for so long). Unfortunately, modern day mainstream economics seems like a far stretch from the days of Adam Smith and John Stuart Mills. 

In the name of scientific research, as they say. I don't hate it, the mathematics that is, but I feel that it sucks the life out of economics. Utterly disgusted by how some economic researchers do their work, as though the intellect of human endeavours can be easily map onto mathematical equations. I believe mathematical equations only serve well for the explanations of protons and atoms. 

Of the many reasons I am starting this blog, I hope to remain in touch with my economic roots. I hope to jot down some of my thoughts about economics and how I relate them to my everyday (and sometimes not so everyday) activities. I will use minimal maths, but well, people should understand that its freaking difficult to produce equations on computers, what more those fanciful economic structures! Not that I was great in mathematics to begin with! 

I plan to keep my entries short too. Intuitions shouldn't take took long, even without the aid of mathematics.