This work examines the practical impact of economics and economic ideology on the Third World. Gondwe argues that the scientific and technical veil covering economics reduces its capacity to affect current and future economic problems. Further, by attempting to shed itself of its ideological underpinnings, economics--particularly neoclassical economics--is running the risk of becoming socially irrelevant. The author concludes that economics as it is now being practiced is inadequate to deal with real-world problems because its assumptions and methods bias it toward intellectual games and...