奥卡姆的威廉的警句经常被乱用,当这位哲人说:“不要增殖假设”时,他的意思可能不是说,任何现象的第一个似乎合理的解释在所有其它的解释之上。经济学职业是那些用似乎合理代替研究,用重复代替证据,最知名的集中的一个产地。在加尔布雷斯新近的一本著作中,他揭露了近来经济的神话中更固执的且更有突害的一个。 O'Calm's William aphorisms are often misused, and when the philosopher said “not multiplying hypotheses,” his meaning may not be that the first plausible explanation of any phenomenon lies above all other explanations. Economics professions are those places of production that are most well-known concentrations in what appears to be a reasonable replacement for research, with repeated substitution for evidence. In a recent book by Galbraith, he uncovered a more stubborn and more promiscuous one in the recent economic mythology.