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

1 Faculty News May 16, 2016 ![Business Standard logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030844.jpg?itok=cpxrraGq)>

Excerpt from the [Business Standard](http://www.business-standard.com/article/opinion/ajit-balakrishnan-on-the-man-who-knew-infinity-116051601189_1.html) -- "He quotes the economist [Paul Romer](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/paul-romer) of New York University about macroeconomics being plagued by 'mathiness' and thus failing to progress as a true science should, and that current debates among economists are often as pointless as those between 16th-century advocates of heliocentrism and geocentrism - whether the sun or the earth was at the centre of things."

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