I remained the whole day in seclusion, with full opportunity to occupy my attention with my own thoughts. Of these one of the very first that occurred to me was, that there is seldom so much perfection in works composed of many separate parts, upon which different hands had been employed, as in those completed by a single master.
Thus it is observable that the buildings which a single architect has planned and executed, are generally more elegant and commodious than those which several have attempted to improve, by making old walls serve for purposes for which they were not originally built.
- Descartes, A Discourse on Method, Part II
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This'll sound petty, but it bothers me that our understanding of economics today is founded on a seemingly endless train of individual discoveries made by different economists over the last forty years. The think is a patchwork quilt. Where is the overriding theory?
It doesn't feel like a theory. It feels like an agenda. If you have an idea that serves the agenda, your idea gets added to the quilt.
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