# Prof. Paul Romer's recent paper, "Mathiness in the Theory of Economic Growth," is featured

1 Faculty News May 22, 2015 ![Bloomberg logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/bloomberg.jpg?itok=7lKHn1Sf)>

Excerpt from [Bloomberg](http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-05-22/how-mathiness-made-me-jaded-about-economics) -- "[Romer](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/paul-romer)'s mathiness eruption…it’s about the role of math in economic theory. Romer says that in the new, debased culture of macroeconomics, 'empirical work is science; theory is entertainment.'"

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