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Now what? Read the current New Yorker magazine commentary on the
death of economics; it seems to shred the field--using the judgements
of leading economists to do so.
I would appreciate commentaries on the commentary.
FC
[Note from the moderator: The article is called "The Decline of Economics"
and written by John Cassidy. It appeared in the December 2nd issue of the
New Yorker on pp. 50-60. Here's a quote (for those of you who don't have
access to the New Yorker) from pp. 50-51: "In the fifty years since
Keynes's death, economics has been transformed into an abtruse discipline
that often appears to resemble a branch of mathematics. Recently, the pace
of change has accelerated to such an extent that many economists --
particularly middle-aged economists -- hardly recognize their own
discipline." --E-MS]
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