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What Would I Do If I Were A Horse?
While writing the previous post on Neoliberalism and Micromotives, I dug out my old copy of The Mystery of Capital and was reminded of this quote:
Economics, over the years, has become more and more abstract and divorced from events in the real world. Economists, by and large, do not study the workings of the actual economic system. They theorize about it. As Ely Devons, an English economist once said at a meeting, “If economists wished to study the horse, they wouldn’t go and look at horses. They’d sit in their studies and say to themselves, ‘What would I do if I were a horse?’”
…from Ronald H. Coase, The Task of the Society
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