Good thoughts here from theoretical physicist Mark Buchanan. In a Bloomberg piece he warns us to beware of economists peddling elegant models:
“If economists jettisoned elegance and got to work developing more realistic models, we might gain a better understanding of how crises happen, and learn how to anticipate similarly unstable episodes in the future. The theories won’t be pretty, and probably won’t show off any clever mathematics. But we ought to prefer ugly realism to beautiful fantasy.”
Realism, realistic models and a better understanding of our problems using a purely descriptive version of the money system? Sounds like Buchanan is referring to Monetary Realism. Even better, none of its founders are economists. 
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Mr. Roche is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Discipline Funds.Discipline Funds is a low fee financial advisory firm with a focus on helping people be more disciplined with their finances.
He is also the author of Pragmatic Capitalism: What Every Investor Needs to Understand About Money and Finance, Understanding the Modern Monetary System and Understanding Modern Portfolio Construction.
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