Acknowledgments -- No, this is not a joke -- Why does theoretical economic literature exist? -- What allows "literature-only" theoretical discourse to exist? -- How the game is played -- The quest for honest truth in economic science -- The effects of electronic files, citation counts, and...

The 2008 economic crash led to remarkable shifts of opinion among world leaders. Does this crisis create favourable conditions for the reform and revitalisation of economics itself-from a subject dominated by mathematical techniques to a discipline more oriented to understanding real-world...