According to the author the title does not imply that the study of economies is not of great importance but rather it argues that conventional economics offers a misleading view of how the world operates and needs to be replaced.

Three properties are identified as essential to any model seeking to explain unemployment.

First the model should be capable of settling into long periods of regular fluctuations; second, such fluctuations should be sensitive to the initial values of the system; thirdly, following a major shock, there should be no tendency to settle back to the regular behaviour previously seen.

[2] Originally published for the United Kingdom in 1994, Death of Economics has been translated into more than 10 languages.

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