> The subject was becoming a fairly absurd and dogmatically prescriptivist practice That was when I was studying it! So much rubbish "economics is a science b

> The subject was becoming a fairly absurd and dogmatically prescriptivist practice That was when I was studying it! So much rubbish "economics is a science because it uses maths" is one favourite of mine. I did over a decade of study on economics and finance and nobody, even once, mentioned Karl Marx, arguably the most influential economist in the last two hundred years. It was very prone to fetishes. "Price mechanism" was one I recall. Every problem in society had to be shoe horned into a market so the "price mechanism" would get to work.