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Open Letter to Geometry Professors

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This letter was written in 2009 to protest the practice of economics department chairmen refusing to sign the diplomas of students with a geometry class on their transcript.

On 16 May 2011, the Post-Autistic Economics Network changed its name to the World Economics Association. Their leadership is unchanged and they continue to maintain the same blacklist, though the economists on the blacklist are no longer referred to as "autistic," apparently in deference to real scientists who know that "autistic" is not just a bad word to hurl at one's ideological opponents but a neurological disorder that should be diagnosed by medical professionals, not economists.

The prohibition on granting an economics degree to anyone with formal training in logic remains in place.
 
Cox and Forshaw said:
At the heart of Einstein’s theory of special relativity lie two proposals, which in the language of physics are termed axioms. An axiom is a proposition that is assumed to be true. Given the axioms, we can then proceed to work out the consequences for the real world, which we can check using experiments.

This is how real science is conducted.

Cox and Forshaw said:
The first part of this method is an old one, dating back to ancient Greece. Euclid most famously deployed it in his Elements, in which he developed the system of geometry still taught in schools to this day.

Geometry is taught in schools today to physicists – but not economists. The chairmen of economics departments refuse to sign the diplomas of any students caught with geometry classes on their transcripts. And any author who writes on the subject of economics and speaks favorably of the axiomatic method is summarily blacklisted; that is, put on the Toxic Textbooks list.

This is NOT how real science is conducted.
 
This explains much about why economics is referred to as "the dismal science."
 
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