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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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