The power of ideas to affect policy -- Ideas and policies that created the first global economic crisis of the twenty-first century -- Reading tea leaves to "know" the future : classical theory's ideas about a capitalist system -- A penny spent is a penny earned : Keynes's ideas on a capitalist...

Is the economic and financial crisis also a crisis of Economics? From different perspectives, today there is rather harsh criticism of Economics as a Social Science. In this paper, first, some of the recent failures of Economics are discussed. Then some of the criticisms are taken up that are...