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Economics by humans, for aliens

Written by Uwe Reinhardt, Columnist
Published: Monday, February 9th, 2009
Economics departments around the world probably should be collectively appended to departments of astrophysics because so much of modern economics is devoted to modeling life on Star Trek’s legendary planet Vulcan, of which the utterly logical and ever-rational Mr ...(back to the article)

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  • 9:05 a.m. on Feb. 9th, 2009
    Posted by
    P' 11

    An introductory course with a text that simplifies its subject? Shocking! Scandalous! Thank you once more for your brilliant exposé of how those gosh darn economists have no sense human nature!

  • 1:11 p.m. on Feb. 9th, 2009
    Posted by
    motion

    There is a difference between simplification and distortion, P'11.

  • 12:59 p.m. on March 12th, 2009
    Posted by
    L*58

    The crucial question is: will there be some curriculum response in our great Princeton Economics Department? Will Princeton's future graduates be wiser, having taken the revised (future) Econ 101? If not, why not?

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