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The Making of an Economist, Redux

Author : David Colander
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400828643
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Making of an Economist, Redux written by David Colander and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-17 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economists seem to be everywhere in the media these days. But what exactly do today's economists do? What and how are they taught? Updating David Colander and Arjo Klamer's classic The Making of an Economist, this book shows what is happening in elite U.S. economics Ph.D. programs. By examining these programs, Colander gives a view of cutting-edge economics--and a glimpse at its likely future. And by comparing economics education today to the findings of the original book, the new book shows how much--and in what ways--the field has changed over the past two decades. The original book led to a reexamination of graduate education by the profession, and has been essential reading for prospective graduate students. Like its predecessor, The Making of an Economist, Redux is likely to provoke discussion within economics and beyond. The book includes new interviews with students at Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, MIT, Chicago, and Columbia. In these conversations, the students--the next generation of elite economists--colorfully and frankly describe what they think of their field and what graduate economics education is really like. The book concludes with reflections by Colander, Klamer, and Robert Solow. This inside look at the making of economists will interest anyone who wants to better understand the economics profession. An indispensible tool for anyone thinking about graduate education in economics, this edition is complete with colorful interviews and predictions about the future of cutting-edge economics.

The Making of an Economist, Redux

Author : David C. Colander
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book The Making of an Economist, Redux written by David C. Colander and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation. Economists seem to be everywhere in the media these days. But what exactly do today's economists do? What and how are they taught? Updating David Colander and Arjo Klamer's classic The Making of an Economist, this book shows what is happening in elite U.S. economics Ph. D. programs. By examining these programs, Colander gives a view of cutting-edge economics--and a glimpse at its likely future. And by comparing economics education today to the findings of the original book, the new book shows how much--and in what ways--the field has changed over the past two decades. The original book led to a reexamination of graduate education by the profession, and has been essential reading for prospective graduate students. Like its predecessor, The Making of an Economist, Redux is likely to provoke discussion within economics and beyond. The book includes new interviews with students at Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, MIT, Chicago, and Columbia. In these conversations, the students--the next generation of elite economists--colorfully and frankly describe what they think of their field and what graduate economics education is really like. The book concludes with reflections by Colander, Klamer, and Robert Solow. This inside look at the making of economists will interest anyone who wants to better understand the economics profession. An indispensible tool for anyone thinking about graduate education in economics, this edition is complete with colorful interviews and predictions about the future of cutting-edge economics.

The Making of a European Economist

Author : David Colander
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1848449119
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (484 download)

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Download or read book The Making of a European Economist written by David Colander and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is fascinating to read not only by someone like me who is not really an economist, but has been close to the field and has been teaching students of economics for a long time, but mainly by policymakers both in the field of higher education and in other fields like business where the larger aspects of societal changes are more and more apparent. The book is even more worth-reading to an audience of economics professors, researchers, students and particularly policymakers who are waiting for input from economic higher education. . . Mariana Nicolae, Journal of Philosophical Economics In this captivating volume, David Colander scrutinizes economics in Europe, which is currently undergoing a radical process of convergence, standardization and metrication. While he acknowledges that the USA is the world leader in terms of journal publications in economics, he also suggests that the scholarly breadth and practical orientation of much economics research in Europe is worth preserving and enhancing. No-one who wishes to make economics more relevant should ignore Colander s painstaking study. Geoffrey M. Hodgson, University of Hertfordshire, UK David Colander s highly original and thought provoking book considers ongoing changes in graduate European economics education. Following up on his earlier classic studies of US graduate economic education, he studies the economist production function in which universities take student raw material and transform it into economists, In doing so he provides insight into economists and economics. He argues that until recently Europe had a different economist production function than did the US; thus European economists were different from their US counterparts. However, this is now changing, and Colander suggests that the changes are not necessarily for the best. Specifically, he suggests that in their attempt to catch up with US programs, European economics is undermining some of their strengths-strengths that could allow them to leapfrog US economics in the future, and be the center of 21st century economics. Student views on the ongoing changes and ensuing difficulties are reported via surveys of, and interviews with, students in global European graduate programs. The conclusion draws broad policy implications from the study, and suggests a radically different market approach to funding economic research that Colander argues will help avoid the pitfalls into which European economics is now falling. This unique and path-breaking book will prove essential reading for economists, as well as academics, students and researchers with a special interest in economics education, the methodology of economics, or the history of economic thought.

The Making of Modern Economics

Author : Mark Skousen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000523896
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Making of Modern Economics written by Mark Skousen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-01-03 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • The book is written in a lively style and includes text boxes highlighting little-known and often amusing facts about these famous economists, all of which add colour to the text • Provides a comprehensive overview of the historical development of economic thought and of its relevance to contemporary policy issues • Offers an Austrian economics perspective, in contrast to the competing textbooks • Updated to cover MMT (modern monetary theory), climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic; minimum wage debates, Schumpeter and socialism, Malthus and immigration, and more

The Economics of Economists

Author : Alessandro Lanteri
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107015707
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Economics of Economists written by Alessandro Lanteri and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading scholars investigate the profession of academic economics, with a focus on the intellectual environment and incentives for economic research.

The Economist's Oath

Author : George F. DeMartino
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199813434
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book The Economist's Oath written by George F. DeMartino and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-26 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economics is today among the most influential of all professions. Economists alter the course of economic affairs and deeply affect the lives of current and future generations. Yet, virtually alone among the major professions, economics lacks a body of professional ethics to guide its practitioners. Over the past century the profession consistently has refused to adopt or even explore professional economic ethics. As a consequence, economists are largely unprepared for the ethical challenges they face in their work. The Economist's Oath challenges the economic orthodoxy. It builds the case for professional economic ethics step by step-first by rebutting economists' arguments against and then by building an escalating positive case for professional economic ethics. The book surveys what economists do and demonstrates that their work is ethically fraught. It explores the principles, questions, and debates that inform professional ethics in other fields, and identifies the lessons that economics can take from the best established bodies of professional ethics. George DeMartino demonstrates that in the absence of professional ethics, well-meaning economists have committed basic, preventable ethical errors that have caused severe harm for societies across the globe. The book investigates the reforms in economic education that would be necessary to recognize professional ethical obligations, and concludes with the Economist's Oath, drawing on the book's central insights and highlighting the virtues that are required of the "ethical economist." The Economist's Oath seeks to initiate a serious conversation among economists about the ethical content of their work. It examines the ethical entailments of the immense influence over the lives of others that the economics profession now enjoys, and proposes a framework for the new field of professional economic ethics.

Where Economics Went Wrong

Author : David Colander
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691184054
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Where Economics Went Wrong written by David Colander and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How modern economics abandoned classical liberalism and lost its way Milton Friedman once predicted that advances in scientific economics would resolve debates about whether raising the minimum wage is good policy. Decades later, Friedman’s prediction has not come true. In Where Economics Went Wrong, David Colander and Craig Freedman argue that it never will. Why? Because economic policy, when done correctly, is an art and a craft. It is not, and cannot be, a science. The authors explain why classical liberal economists understood this essential difference, why modern economists abandoned it, and why now is the time for the profession to return to its classical liberal roots. Carefully distinguishing policy from science and theory, classical liberal economists emphasized values and context, treating economic policy analysis as a moral science where a dialogue of sensibilities and judgments allowed for the same scientific basis to arrive at a variety of policy recommendations. Using the University of Chicago—one of the last bastions of classical liberal economics—as a case study, Colander and Freedman examine how both the MIT and Chicago variants of modern economics eschewed classical liberalism in their attempt to make economic policy analysis a science. By examining the way in which the discipline managed to lose its bearings, the authors delve into such issues as the development of welfare economics in relation to economic science, alternative voices within the Chicago School, and exactly how Friedman got it wrong. Contending that the division between science and prescription needs to be restored, Where Economics Went Wrong makes the case for a more nuanced and self-aware policy analysis by economists.

From Economics to Political Economy

Author : Tim B. Thornton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317392108
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book From Economics to Political Economy written by Tim B. Thornton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discipline of economics has been increasingly criticized for its inability to illuminate the workings of the real world and to provide reliable policy guidance for the major economic and social challenges of our time. A central problem in contemporary economics, and a problem from which many of its other failings flow, is its lack of plurality. By a lack of plurality it is meant that contemporary economics lacks diversity in its methods, theories, epistemology and methodology. It is also meant that economics has become far less interdisciplinary. From Economics to Political Economy offers an explanation as to why economics has become so determinedly non-pluralistic, and also gives considerable attention to exploring and evaluating promising strategies for reform. These strategies include developing a pluralist economics under the label of ‘political economy’ within other social science departments (such as departments of politics). Along the way the reader will learn about the worldwide student movement seeking greater pluralism in economics, encounter some dramatic case studies in intellectual suppression, gain a fuller sense of the nature of contemporary economics and explore the relationship between economics and other social sciences. This book is of interest to any social scientist, particularly those with interests in economics and politics.

The Assumptions Economists Make

Author : Jonathan Schlefer
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674065522
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Assumptions Economists Make written by Jonathan Schlefer and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-04 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economists make confident assertions in op-ed columns and on cable news—so why are their explanations at odds with equally confident assertions from other economists? And why are all economic predictions so rarely borne out? Harnessing his frustration with this contradiction, Schlefer set out to investigate how economists arrive at their opinions.

The Making of the Economy

Author : Till Düppe
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739164198
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book The Making of the Economy written by Till Düppe and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did modern man come to believe in the object of the economy? What hopes made us accept scientific authority about this illusive thing? What kinds of persons were attracted by objective knowledge in economic discourse? And how does this knowledge guide our economic life? The Making of the Economy tackles such questions surrounding the modern notion of the economy with a fresh look from phenomenological philosophy. In a historical narrative of economic discourses, Till D ppe shows that only due to the scientific culture of economics we speak of an economy. Economic science made the economy. Our economic experiences alone do not trigger an interest in the economy--which makes Husserl's case for the "forgetfulness of the life-world." D ppe's historical narrative focuses on the emergence of formal economic analysis out of a series of successive life-worlds, or concrete historical situations, an approach which generates a new substantive understanding of both the history of economics and the current discourse of crisis surrounding economics. The book will appeal to historians and philosophers of the social sciences, as well as scholars of history, philosophy, and economics.

How Economics Should Be Done

Author : David C. Colander
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178643590X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book How Economics Should Be Done written by David C. Colander and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Colander has been writing about economic methodology for over 30 years, but he goes out of his way to emphasize that he does not see himself as a methodologist. His pragmatic methodology is applicable to what economists are doing and attempts to answer questions that all economists face as they go about their work. The articles collected in this volume are divided, with the first part providing a framework underlying Colander’s methodology and introducing Colander’s methodology for economic policy within that framework. Part two presents Colander’s view on the methodology for microeconomics, while part three looks at Colander’s methodology for macroeconomics. The book closes with discussions of broader issues.

The Puzzle of Modern Economics

Author : Roger E. Backhouse
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139491334
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book The Puzzle of Modern Economics written by Roger E. Backhouse and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does economics hold the key to everything or does the recent financial crisis show that it has failed? This book provides an assessment of modern economics that cuts through the confusion and controversy on this question. Case studies of the creation of new markets, the Russian transition to capitalism, globalization, and money and finance establish that economics has been very successful where problems have been well defined and where the world can be changed to fit the theory, but that it has been less successful in tackling bigger problems. The book then offers a historical perspective on how economists have, since the Second World War, tried to make their subject scientific. It explores the evolving relationship between science and ideology and investigates the place of heterodoxy and dissent within the discipline.

What is Neoclassical Economics?

Author : Jamie Morgan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317334523
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book What is Neoclassical Economics? written by Jamie Morgan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite some diversification modern economics still attracts a great deal of criticism. This is largely due to highly unrealistic assumptions underpinning economic theory, explanatory failure, poor policy framing, and a dubious focus on prediction. Many argue that flaws continue to owe much of their shortcomings to neoclassical economics. As a result, what we mean by neoclassical economics remains a significant issue. This collection addresses the issue from a new perspective, taking as its point of departure Tony Lawson’s essay ‘What is this ‘school’ called neoclassical economics?’. Few terms are as controversial for pluralist and heterodox economists as neoclassical economics. This controversy has many aspects because the term itself has different specifications and connotations. Within this multiplicity what we mean by neoclassical matters to pluralist and heterodox economists for two primary reasons. First, because it informs how we view and critique the mainstream; second, because the relationship between heterodox and mainstream economics influences how heterodox economists model, apply methods and construct theory. The chapters in this collection each have different things to say about these matters, with contributions ranging across the work of key thinkers, such as Thorstein Veblen and Kenneth Arrow, applied issues of non-linear modelling of dynamic systems, and key events in the history of economics. This book will be of use to those interested in methodology, political economy, heterodoxy, and the history of economic thought.

Secrets of Economics Editors

Author : Michael Szenberg
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262320126
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Secrets of Economics Editors written by Michael Szenberg and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-01-24 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experienced economics editors discuss navigating the world of scholarly journals, with details on submission, reviews, acceptance, rejection, and editorial policy. Editors of academic journals are often the top scholars in their fields. They are charged with managing the flow of hundreds of manuscripts each year—from submission to review to rejection or acceptance—all while continuing their own scholarly pursuits. Tenure decisions often turn on who has published what in which journals, but editors can accept only a fraction of the papers submitted. In this book, past and present editors of economics journals discuss navigating the world of academic journals. Their contributions offer essential reading for anyone who has ever submitted a paper, served as a referee or associate editor, edited a journal—or read an article and wondered why it was published. The editors describe their experiences at journals that range from the American Economic Review to the Journal of Sports Economics. The issues they examine include late referee reports, slow resubmission of manuscripts, and plagiarism—as well as the difficulties of “herding cats” and the benefits of husband-wife editorial partnerships. They consider the role of the editor, as gatekeeper or developer of content; and they advise authors to write more carefully and clearly, to include citations that locate their articles in the context of the existing literature, and to update their work after it has been submitted and rejected elsewhere. The chapters also offer a timely, insider's perspective on the general effectiveness of the system of academic journals in economics. Contributors Richard V. Adkisson, Richard G. Anderson, William A. Barnett, Suzanne R. Becker, William R. Becker, Daniel W. Bromley, William G. Dewald, Antony W. Dnes, Zvi Eckstein, Richard Friberg, Esther Gal-Or, Craufurd Goodwin, Thorvaldur Gylfason, Campbell R. Harvey, Geoffrey M. Hodgson, Leo H. Kahane, R. Preston McAfee, John Pencavel, Gerald Pfann, Steven Pressman, Lall B. Ramrattan, J. Barkley Rosser Jr., Paul H. Rubin, William F. Shughart II, Robert M. Solow, Daniel F. Spulber, Michael Szenberg, Timothy Taylor, Abu N.M. Wahid, Michael Watts, Lawrence J. White, Jürgen von Hagen, Fabrizio Zilibotti

Economists in the Americas

Author : Veronica Montecinos
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849803463
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (498 download)

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Download or read book Economists in the Americas written by Veronica Montecinos and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Probably no region s economists have had greater public visibility or greater impact on regional and national public policy than Latin America s and no region has been more directly affected by the spread of US economics. Economists in the Americas joins a small but important comparative literature on economics as a profession and is the first comparative treatment of professional economists in the United States and Latin America. A multidisciplinary group of scholars discusses the last sixty years of shifting trends in economics in seven countries in the Western Hemisphere Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay and the United States. The chapters address the history of economics in the Americas, the role of economists in politics and policy-making, economics education and competing paradigms in the field. This collection points to the interconnections among the national cases, the forging and breakdown of consensus around state and market dominance, the transnational diffusion of economic ideas and professional norms, as well as the embrace and rejection of an increasingly Americanized professional identity among Latin American economists. The book will be of interest to policymakers and scholars interested in the comparative history and sociology of economics, development, public policy, international affairs, political science and Latin American studies.

Was the Good Samaritan a Bad Economist?

Author : Charles K. Wilber
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793637016
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Was the Good Samaritan a Bad Economist? written by Charles K. Wilber and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economics is imbued with individualistic values that result in an economy marked by extreme inequality that in turn restricts social mobility and further marginalizes the poor. Catholic social thought provides the moral values required to help make economics capable of building an economy that serves all, rich and poor alike.

Contending Perspectives in Economics

Author : John T. Harvey
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789900492
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (899 download)

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Download or read book Contending Perspectives in Economics written by John T. Harvey and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-28 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its second edition, John Harvey’s rigorous textbook provides an accessible and engaging introduction to various competing schools of thought in economics. This revised and extended edition will continue to open readers’ minds, leading them towards new and productive directions. Chapters study numerous schools of thought including Neoclassical, Marxist, Austrian, Post Keynesian, Institutionalist, New Institutionalist, Feminist and Ecological. Unique features and criticisms of each approach are highlighted through discussions of methodology, world views, popular themes, and current activities.