Colander The Making of an Economist, Redux

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ISBN: 978-1-4008-2864-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Colander, David

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften: Berufe, Ausbildung, Karriereplanung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vii

CHAPTER ONE: Introduction: Understanding Economics and Economists 1

PART I: THE SURVEY RESULTS 17

CHAPTER TWO: The Making of an Economist, Redux 19

CHAPTER THREE: Further Results from the Survey 60

CHAPTER FOUR: How the Views of the Original Survey Respondents Have Changed 84

PART II: CONVERSATIONS WITH GRADUATE STUDENTS 107

CHAPTER FIVE: Harvard Interview 109

CHAPTER SIX: Princeton Interviews 126

CHAPTER SEVEN: Stanford Interview 148

CHAPTER EIGHT: MIT Interviews 165

CHAPTER NINE: Chicago Interviews 188

CHAPTER TEN: Columbia Interview 215

PART III: REFLECTIONS ON THE SURVEY AND INTERVIEWS 225

CHAPTER ELEVEN: Does This Have to Be Our Future? (Arjo Klamer) 227

CHAPTER TWELVE: Reflections on the Survey (Robert M. Solow) 234

CHAPTER THIRTEEN: The Academic Research Game and Graduate Economics Education 239

Notes 251

Bibliography 259

Index 261

Über Autor(innen)

David Colander is Christian A. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Economics at Middlebury College. He is the author or editor of more than thirty books, including Why Aren't Economists as Important as Garbagemen?, The Lost Art of Economics, Economics (Irwin/McGraw-Hill), and The Stories Economists Tell (Irwin/McGraw-Hill).