The Lost Art of Economics

David Colander

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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’.

Keywords: Economics and Finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E0 G0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
ISBN: 9781840646948
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