By Michael Hoexter, Ph.D.
A spectre is haunting Europe, the United States, and the world, the spectre of social science unmoored from reality. Economics, under the influence of an alliance of otherworldly academics and short-sighted businesspeople has lost touch with the reality of a functioning economy, the reality of ordinary people, and the on-rushing challenge of overburdened planetary systems, in particular human-caused changes in the chemical composition of the atmosphere and oceans.
