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The Lost Art of Economics

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  • David Colander

Abstract

The essays explore the forces in academic institutions that have led economics to its current position, as well as the implications of the lost art for the economics profession and its future. In the end, the author is positive about the future of the profession, and predicts that in 2050 it will no longer be as Solow suggested it currently is – ‘the overeducated in pursuit of the unknowable’. Instead it will be the ‘appropriately educated in search of the knowable’.

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  • David Colander, 2001. "The Lost Art of Economics," Books, Edward Elgar Publishing, number 2415.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eebook:2415
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    Cited by:

    1. Girts Racko, 2019. "The Values of Economics," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 154(1), pages 35-48, January.
    2. Cedrini, Mario & Fontana, Magda, 2015. "Mainstreaming. Reflections on the Origins and Fate of Mainstream Pluralism," Department of Economics and Statistics Cognetti de Martiis. Working Papers 201510, University of Turin.
    3. Eduardo Wiesner Durán, 2007. "La efectividad en términos de desarrollo de las instituciones multilaterales bajo restricciones de acción colectiva," Revista de Economía Institucional, Universidad Externado de Colombia - Facultad de Economía, vol. 9(17), pages 23-42, July-Dece.
    4. Katarina Juselius, 2011. "On the Role of Theory and Evidence in Macroeconomics," Chapters, in: John B. Davis & D. Wade Hands (ed.), The Elgar Companion to Recent Economic Methodology, chapter 17, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    5. Hendrik P. van Dalen, 2019. "Values of Economists Matter in the Art and Science of Economics," Kyklos, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 72(3), pages 472-499, August.
    6. Dave Colander, 2008. "The Myth of the Myth of the Rational Voter," Middlebury College Working Paper Series 0807, Middlebury College, Department of Economics.
    7. David Colander, 2004. "Thinking Outside the Heterodox Box: Post Walrasian Macroeconomics and Heterodoxy," Middlebury College Working Paper Series 0424, Middlebury College, Department of Economics.
    8. KimMarie McGoldrick & Robert Garnett, 2013. "Big Think: A Model for Critical Inquiry in Economics Courses," The Journal of Economic Education, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 44(4), pages 389-398, October.
    9. Robert Garnett & Kimmarie Mcgoldrick, 2014. "A 'Big Think' Approach to Government Debt: Promoting Significant Learning in Introductory Macroeconomics," Review of Political Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 26(4), pages 628-647, October.
    10. Matthew Drennan, 2006. "Economics: Diminishing Marginal Utility," Challenge, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 49(5), pages 71-91.
    11. David Colander, 2003. "Integrating Sex and Drugs into the Principles Course: Market-Failures Versus Failures-of-Market Outcomes," The Journal of Economic Education, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 34(1), pages 82-91, January.
    12. Thomas Mayer, 2012. "Ziliak and McCloskey's Criticisms of Significance Tests: An Assessment," Econ Journal Watch, Econ Journal Watch, vol. 9(3), pages 256-297, September.
    13. Craig Freedman, 2003. "Do Great Economists Make Great Teachers? George Stigler as a Dissertation Supervisor," The Journal of Economic Education, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 34(3), pages 282-290, January.
    14. Thomas Mayer, 2012. "Ziliak and McClosky?s Criticisms of Significance Tests: A Damage Assessment," Working Papers 61, University of California, Davis, Department of Economics.
    15. Alex Millmow, 2010. "The Changing Sociology of the Australian Academic Economics Profession," Economic Papers, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 29(1), pages 87-95, March.
    16. Thomas Mayer, 2012. "Ziliak and McClosky?s Criticisms of Significance Tests: A Damage Assessment," Working Papers 126, University of California, Davis, Department of Economics.
    17. Robert F. Garnett, Jr., 2009. "Rethinking The Pluralist Agenda In Economics Education," International Review of Economic Education, Economics Network, University of Bristol, vol. 8(2), pages 58-71.
    18. William L. Davis, 2007. "Economists' Opinions of Economists' Work," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 66(2), pages 267-288, April.

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    Keywords

    Economics and Finance;

    JEL classification:

    • G0 - Financial Economics - - General
    • E0 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General

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