Debunking economics : the naked emperor dethroned?

About the author -- Tables, figures and boxes -- Tables -- 2.1 Anticipations of the housing crisis and recession -- 3.1 'Utils' and change in utils from consuming bananas -- 3.2 Utils arising from the consumption of two commodities -- 3.3 The commodities in Sippel's 'Revealed Preference' experiment -- 4.1 Demand schedule for a hypothetical monopoly -- 4.2 Costs for a hypothetical monopoly -- 4.3 Sales and costs determine the level of output that maximizes profit -- 4.4 Cost and revenue for a 'perfectly competitive' industry identical in scale to hypothetical monopoly -- 5.1 Input and output data for a hypothetical firm -- 5.2 Cost drawings for the survey by Eiteman and Guthrie -- 5.3 Empirical research on the nature of cost curves -- 7.1 Sraffa's hypothetical subsistence economy -- 7.2 Production with a surplus -- 7.3 Relationship between maximum and actual rate of profit and the wage share of surplus -- 7.4 The impact of the rate of profit on the measurement of capital -- 10.1 Anderson's ranking of sciences -- 12.1 The alleged Money Multiplier process -- 13.1 A hypothetical example of the impact of decelerating debt on aggregate demand -- 13.2 The actual impact of decelerating debt on aggregate demand -- 14.1 A pure credit economy with paper money -- 14.2 The dynamics of a pure credit economy with no growth -- 14.3 Net incomes -- 14.4 A growing pure credit economy with electronic money -- 15.1 Von Neumann's procedure for working out a numerical value for utility -- 15.2 The Allais 'Paradox' -- 15.3 The Allais 'Paradox' Part 2 -- 16.1 The solvability of mathematical models -- 17.1 Marx's unadjusted value creation table, with the rate of profit dependent upon the variable-to-constant ratio in each sector -- 17.2 Marx's profit distribution table, with the rate of profit now uniform across sectors -- 17.3 Steedman's hypothetical economy