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NEW HAVEN – Since the global financial crisis and recession of 2007-2009, criticism of the economics profession has intensified.
The failure of all but a few professional economists to forecast the episode – the aftereffects of which still linger – has led many to question whether the economics profession contributes anything significant to society.
As far as I can find, almost no one in the profession – not even luminaries like John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich Hayek, or Irving Fisher – made public statements anticipating the Great Depression.
So why has the failure to foresee the latest crisis turned out so differently for the profession?
In his new book Trillion Dollar Economists, Robert Litan of the Brookings Institution argues that the economics profession has “created trillions of dollars of income and wealth for the United States and the rest of the world.”
That sounds like a nice contribution for a relatively small profession, especially if we do some simple arithmetic.
The innovations described in Litan’s and Siegfried’s books show that the economics profession has produced an enormous amount of extremely valuable work, characterized by a serious effort to provide genuine evidence.
In fact, this irrationality is no news to the economics profession either.
The economics profession bears part of the blame for this.
Despite the near-unanimous view of the economics profession that Brexit would tip the UK into recession and lower its long-term growth rate, voters went with their hearts, not their wallets.
For example, the profession focuses far too little on political issues and far too much on beating students to death with mathematics.
But much current criticism of the profession is based on misunderstanding and ignorance.
This may explain why Lebanese college graduates of all faiths often include the name and profession of their parents in their resumes, or why one of the first Arabic words that a foreigner learns after settling in Lebanon is wasta (connections).
Richard Thaler, a distinguished behavioral economist at the University of Chicago, has taken the profession to task for ignoring real-world behavior in favor of models that assume people are rational optimizers.
Prostitution is often dubbed “the oldest profession.”
Our Children’s EconomicsTOKYO – The economics profession has not had a good crisis.
But the economics profession will also become more diverse and dynamic – and our children’s economics will be healthier as a result.
Joking about ScienceITHACA, NEW YORK – An apocryphal story sometimes heard among physicists concerns a toast, proposed by his Cambridge University colleagues, to J. J. Thomson’s discovery of the electron in 1897: “To the electron: may it never be of use to anyone!”Pure mathematicians supposedly tell a similar joke about their profession.
Fees are high because the notaries themselves control access to their profession.
As in all democracies where the rule of law prevails, members of a specific profession, including journalists, are not granted any form of immunity from these types of serious criminal charges.
That is not a particularly popular profession among today’s youth, so I asked him why.
The contemporary obsession with reductionist and mechanical models seems to have driven the profession from theory toward ideology, putting it out of touch with the real economy.
The Spence report reflects a broader intellectual shift within the development profession, a shift that encompasses not just growth strategies but also health, education, and other social policies.
None of the many efforts to stamp out “the world’s oldest profession” has succeeded in eliminating it entirely.
And when prostitution is illegal, its practitioners may struggle to move on from the profession, because criminal records prevent them from obtaining other forms of employment.
This year, as journalists and government officials gather in Ghana for the event’s 25th observance, attention will turn to the myriad pressures and challenges confronting the profession worldwide, and how official and state-sponsored hostility toward the press is threatening democracy.
Even members of the medical profession have been known to discriminate against patients with leprosy.
The medical profession doled out advice about how one should eat in the same breath as instructions about how one should live – and about what sort of person one should be.
The economics profession (and institutions within the existing financial architecture, including regulators) had become excessively specialized, rigid, and self-interested.
However, this contribution was so far ahead of its time that the profession did not discover its importance until a quarter-century later, when theorists were developing endogenous growth theories.
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