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Professor Paul Romer's research on "mathiness" is referenced

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Excerpt from ValueWalk -- "Most mathematical articles in peer reviewed academic finance journals suffer from lack of model specificity, failing either to properly define terms or to specify exactly what they are trying to prove, or drawing conclusions in ordinary language that aren’t warranted by the mathematics. In these respects, they resemble more what economist Paul Romer has called mathiness than real mathematics." 

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