There is a distinction between an MBA or finance degree and the field of economics. You might not have gotten quite to the bottom of it.

Of course financial activity has a lot of resemblance to gambling. Mathematicians have been analyzing gambling for a long time, but does that make them the same as anyone playing slots in Vegas?

And that was one of the points, apparently physicists switching to economists say math is simplistic and superflous.

Math is math, but it can be used as a window dressing for you opinions.

On the other hand if your field pretends to be science. Also creates and awards itself a Nobel prize and pretends its an actual thing. Well maybe its a sign of a con.

> [The author, in third person] is not an economist, which is probably why he's been able to develop a working model of the global monetary system. His research is unique and informative in ways an economist would never consider.