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Pat Gunning wrote:  
> Questions to Rod: What criteria are you using to judge  
> that methodological individualism has been a colossal  
> failure? What has it been a failure at doing or  
> helping people do?  
  
  
Mainly because no-one uses the method. Even the Austrians who claim to use it  
simply wave their hands and mutter something about spontaneous generation.  
  
No-one uses it because it is impossible to use. You can not add up individuals  
who don't interact and expect to understand something as complex as an economy.  
  
Rod Hay  
  
 

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