Economia
- Eficiência Do Mercado Financeiro
Ignore the cranks: Orthodox economics can account for the 2008 financial crash by Andrew Lilico October 29, 2013, 12:53am ONE OF the more annoying false memes of recent years has been the notion that standard corporate finance...
- Ciclos Econômicos
Review “Harry Veryser provides an excellent introduction to the Austrian School of economics and an excellent account of the economic history of the twentieth century, chronicling the rise, fall, and (hopefully) rebirth of classical liberalism...
- A Teoria Que Explica Crises Econômicas
Meet the Economists Who Have Explained Every Crisis Of the Last Century (No, Krugman Isn't One Of Them) Meet the Economists Who Have Explained Every Crisis Of the Last Century...
- Ajude - Economistas Que Entendem A Economia
Help Wanted: Economists Who Understand the Economy By Mary Theroux | Sunday November 25, 2012 at 5:15 PM PST 48 1 Ronald Coase Ronald Coase, the 101-year old, Nobel Prize-winning economist from whose essay, “The Lighthouse in Economics”...
- A Ciência Econômica No Caminho Errado
Saving Economics from the Economists Saving Economics from the Economists by Ronald Coase Economics as currently presented in textbooks and taught in the classroom does not have much to do with business management, and still less with entrepreneurship....
Economia
O futuro da ciência econômica
Empirics and Psychology: Eight of the World’s Top Young Economists Discuss Where Their Field Is Going
The past few years have been tough on economics and economists. In a searing indictment written one year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Paul Krugman concluded that
This soul-searching has led to the establishment of organizations such as the Institute for New Economic Thinking and invigorated discussions about alternative metrics for gauging countries’ welfare (last July, in fact, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution asserting that “the gross domestic product indicator by nature was not designed to and does not adequately reflect the happiness and well-being of people in a country”).
To get the pulse of a field in flux, I asked eight of the world’s top young economists to identify the biggest unanswered questions in economics and predict what breakthroughs will define it a decade or two hence.
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the central cause of the profession’s failure was the desire for an all-encompassing, intellectually elegant approach that also gave economists a chance to show off their mathematical prowess. Unfortunately, this romanticized and sanitized vision of the economy led most economists to ignore all the things that can go wrong. They turned a blind eye to the limitations of human rationality…to the problems of institutions that run amok; to the imperfections of markets…and to the dangers created when regulators don’t believe in regulation.Last August, Graeme Maxton published a book arguing that “modern economics has failed us,” and this April, the New York Times hosted a roundtable “about how the teaching of economics should change in light of the financial crisis.”
This soul-searching has led to the establishment of organizations such as the Institute for New Economic Thinking and invigorated discussions about alternative metrics for gauging countries’ welfare (last July, in fact, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution asserting that “the gross domestic product indicator by nature was not designed to and does not adequately reflect the happiness and well-being of people in a country”).
To get the pulse of a field in flux, I asked eight of the world’s top young economists to identify the biggest unanswered questions in economics and predict what breakthroughs will define it a decade or two hence.
Mais
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- Eficiência Do Mercado Financeiro
Ignore the cranks: Orthodox economics can account for the 2008 financial crash by Andrew Lilico October 29, 2013, 12:53am ONE OF the more annoying false memes of recent years has been the notion that standard corporate finance...
- Ciclos Econômicos
Review “Harry Veryser provides an excellent introduction to the Austrian School of economics and an excellent account of the economic history of the twentieth century, chronicling the rise, fall, and (hopefully) rebirth of classical liberalism...
- A Teoria Que Explica Crises Econômicas
Meet the Economists Who Have Explained Every Crisis Of the Last Century (No, Krugman Isn't One Of Them) Meet the Economists Who Have Explained Every Crisis Of the Last Century...
- Ajude - Economistas Que Entendem A Economia
Help Wanted: Economists Who Understand the Economy By Mary Theroux | Sunday November 25, 2012 at 5:15 PM PST 48 1 Ronald Coase Ronald Coase, the 101-year old, Nobel Prize-winning economist from whose essay, “The Lighthouse in Economics”...
- A Ciência Econômica No Caminho Errado
Saving Economics from the Economists Saving Economics from the Economists by Ronald Coase Economics as currently presented in textbooks and taught in the classroom does not have much to do with business management, and still less with entrepreneurship....