The Financial Crisis and the Systemic Failure of Academic Economics

David Colander, H. Follmer, A. Haas, M. Goldberg, Katarina Juselius, Alan Kirman, T. Lux and B. Sloth

Voprosy Ekonomiki, 2010, issue 6

Abstract: The authors of the article claim that the economics profession appears to have been unaware of the long build-up to the current worldwide financial crisis and to have significantly underestimated its dimensions. In their view, this lack of understanding is due to a misallocation of research efforts in economics. They trace the deeper roots of this failure to the professions insistence on constructing models that, by design, disregard the key elements driving outcomes in real-world markets. The economics profession has failed in communicating the limitations, weaknesses, and even dangers of its preferred models to the public. This state of affairs makes clear the need for a major reorientation of focus in economic research, as well as for the establishment of an ethical code that would ask economists to understand and communicate the limitations and potential misuses of their models.

Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.32609/0042-8736-2010-6-10-25

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