История для экономистов
Вот, действительно, хороший знак. Наконец-то догнали, снобы несчастные. А то превратили целую науку в какую-то песочницу для ублажения гипертрофированного ЧСВ горстки яйцеголовых теоретиков-"извращенцев" (см. напр. статью А. Лейонхуфвуда "Жизнь среди эконов").
Пожалуй, на сегодняшний день нет более бесполезной дисциплины, чем экономика. Нет, ну, правда. Возможно, это будет началом опускания заигравшихся академиков на грешную землю. Будем надеяться, что 750000 дол. это только лишь начало.
New Thinking in Economics?
by Christopher Shea
Duke University wants to help the field of economics return “to its core mission of guiding and protecting society.”
That rather lofty language, which makes economists sound like some mixture of clergy and the police, appears in an announcement of a new $750,000 grant to Duke’s Center for the History of Political Economy, from the Institute for New Economic Thinking, a foundation funded by George Soros. The foundation and the Duke center want economists to learn more about the history of economics-as opposed to, presumably, the highly abstract theory that may or may not have helped to land us in our current predicament.
Duke will use the money to pay for visiting scholars, workshops, annual conferences, and a summer teaching institute.
The Institute for New Economic Thinking, which boasts five Nobel laureates* on its advisory board, is gearing up for an April conference, at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, site of the 1944 conference that gave rise to the World Bank. Gordon Brown, the former U.K. prime minister, Paul Volcker, and Joseph Stiglitz are among those slated to speak.
*Yes, the econ semi-Nobel.
Источник: http://blogs.wsj.com/ideas-market/2011/02/01/new-thinking-in-economics/#
Пожалуй, на сегодняшний день нет более бесполезной дисциплины, чем экономика. Нет, ну, правда. Возможно, это будет началом опускания заигравшихся академиков на грешную землю. Будем надеяться, что 750000 дол. это только лишь начало.
New Thinking in Economics?
by Christopher Shea
Duke University wants to help the field of economics return “to its core mission of guiding and protecting society.”
That rather lofty language, which makes economists sound like some mixture of clergy and the police, appears in an announcement of a new $750,000 grant to Duke’s Center for the History of Political Economy, from the Institute for New Economic Thinking, a foundation funded by George Soros. The foundation and the Duke center want economists to learn more about the history of economics-as opposed to, presumably, the highly abstract theory that may or may not have helped to land us in our current predicament.
Duke will use the money to pay for visiting scholars, workshops, annual conferences, and a summer teaching institute.
The Institute for New Economic Thinking, which boasts five Nobel laureates* on its advisory board, is gearing up for an April conference, at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, site of the 1944 conference that gave rise to the World Bank. Gordon Brown, the former U.K. prime minister, Paul Volcker, and Joseph Stiglitz are among those slated to speak.
*Yes, the econ semi-Nobel.
Источник: http://blogs.wsj.com/ideas-market/2011/02/01/new-thinking-in-economics/#