Directions: Read the passage and answer the questions based on it.Instead of being concerned with what actually happens in practice ________ [economics] is increasingly reoccupied with developing pseudo mathematical formulas. These provide models of behavior which never quite fit what actually happens - in a way which resembles the physical sciences; one wrong: instead of equations describing reality - economics produces equations describing deal conditions and theoretical clarity of a type which never occurs in practice. Which of the following best summarizes the argument of this paragraph?

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Directions: Read the passage and answer the questions based on it.Instead of being concerned with what actually happens in practice ________ [economics] is increasingly reoccupied with developing pseudo mathematical formulas. These provide models of behavior which never quite fit what actually happens - in a way which resembles the physical sciences; one wrong: instead of equations describing reality - economics produces equations describing deal conditions and theoretical clarity of a type which never occurs in practice. Which of the following best summarizes the argument of this paragraph?