tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16603042.post116366362944352225..comments2023-03-10T01:20:28.269+13:00Comments on Long Ago and Not True Anyway: Teaching EconomicsTerencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17321549651265388367noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16603042.post-14055103234883303582007-01-09T10:57:00.000+13:002007-01-09T10:57:00.000+13:00Hi Jordan,
Thanks for your comment. My other beef...Hi Jordan,<br /><br />Thanks for your comment. My other beef with the way some econ. papers are taught is that they tend to provide the illusion that there are cast iron laws, like those of physics, which underlie the 'science' whereas, in reality, what you have are value judgements and assumptions about the way people will act. This isn't to say that all the assumptions are nonesense or that the value judgements are entirely obscene. Yet some are pretty questionable and it would be nice if more econ teachers were up front about this.Terencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17321549651265388367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16603042.post-23249122246002971042007-01-08T14:17:00.000+13:002007-01-08T14:17:00.000+13:00I'll never forget the difficulty I had at Auckland...I'll never forget the difficulty I had at Auckland doing economics in the late 90s. The best moment was when our (U Chicago) lecturer, a neoclassisist, was away for a week and we had a Keynesian instead. <br /><br />Eyes were opened. The questions which flowed after that enraged our lecturer, who had been found out as something he'd pretended not to be - posessed of a point of view.<br /><br />The Post Autistic Economics Review is an interesting journal in this debate on economics.Jordan Carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00722110022945310097noreply@blogger.com