Colander The Making of an Economist, Redux

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

Economists seem to be everywhere in the media these days. But what exactly do today's economists do? What and how are they taught? Updating David Colander and Arjo Klamer's classic The Making of an Economist, this book shows what is happening in elite U.S. economics Ph.D. programs. By examining these programs, Colander gives a view of cutting-edge economics--and a glimpse at its likely future. And by comparing economics education today to the findings of the original book, the new book shows how much--and in what ways--the field has changed over the past two decades. The original book led to a reexamination of graduate education by the profession, and has been essential reading for prospective graduate students. Like its predecessor, The Making of an Economist, Redux is likely to provoke discussion within economics and beyond.

The book includes new interviews with students at Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, MIT, Chicago, and Columbia. In these conversations, the students--the next generation of elite economists--colorfully and frankly describe what they think of their field and what graduate economics education is really like. The book concludes with reflections by Colander, Klamer, and Robert Solow.

This inside look at the making of economists will interest anyone who wants to better understand the economics profession. An indispensible tool for anyone thinking about graduate education in economics, this edition is complete with colorful interviews and predictions about the future of cutting-edge economics.

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).