User:Woozle/rethinking economics

Introduction

It seems to me that when people talk about economics, they get very much tangled up in a particular set of solutions and customs that have arisen, which prevents them from grabbing hold of the basic purposes of economics.

I am not an economist, and I have no special knowledge of economics or finance, but I do have experience untangling other people's convoluted and undocumented critical systems and making sure they won't break under unusual circumstances. Finance strikes me as being very much this sort of accumulated amalgam of local solutions, and the fact that it failed so horribly (or, rather, that its failings became so horribly obvious) in 2008 only reinforces this impression.