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Professor Paul Romer's research on "mathiness" and economic growth is cited

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Excerpt from Forbes -- "Insisting on clear prose analysis rather than hard numbers keeps you from sliding down the slope that Paul Romer, an economist at NYU, recently named ‘Mathiness’, i.e. economics masquerading as science through math. Avoiding the 'mathiness trap' will thereby make you more likely to examine the logic and assumptions underpinning the drivers and constraints that are driving the situation."

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