03338cam a2200421Li 4500 36561 36561 BJBSDDR 20230410105429.0 ta 930727s1992 miu 000 0 eng d 047206486X (paper : alk. paper) 9780472064861 (paper : alk. paper) 0472094866 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780472094868 (cloth : alk. paper) ZWZ 012341290 (OCoLC)ocn490084458 (OCoLC)490084458 ZWZ spa ZWZ eng HB 74.5 E24 1992 330/.071/173 20 Educating economists / edited by David Colander and Reuven Brenner. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 1992. x, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Papers from the 12th annual Middlebury College conference on economic issues, held on the spring of 1990. Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-279) and index. General Views of the Economics Profession -- Empirical Foundations of Economics -- Micro and Macro -- Specific Views of the Economics Profession -- Proposals for Reform. What should economists learn in undergraduate and graduate programs? And how does this differ from what students are being taught? In a series of provocative essays, the contributors to Educating Economists cast a critical eye upon the profession and offer solutions to the serious problems they identify in contemporary economics education. The failure of economics teaching is the theme that connects all of the papers in this volume: the failure to develop the skills needed by undergraduate teachers of economics and the failure to prepare students to do work in government and business. The authors point out that professors have lost sight of the skills needed to deal with real-world data, to gain access to existing knowledge, and to critically examine issues, models, and data. Instead, they argue, tenure-minded graduate professors, focused on the use of high-powered mathematical techniques to write formal, technical articles, prepare students only to do abstract research within a framework that just a few other fellow graduates can understand. This situation results in the systematic degradation of the quality of undergraduate economics education and of the institutional usefulness of economics. The contributors conclude that a substantial restructuring of economics education and of the economics profession, including its tenure requirements, is needed and would allow the discipline—and its practitioners—to make a much stronger and more relevant contribution to the people and institutions whose behavior it attempts to explain. Economie politique Etude et enseignement Congráes. ram Economía Estudio y docencia (Graduado) Congresos 761 Economie politique Etude et enseignement (supérieur). ram Economía Estudio y docencia (Graduado) Congresos 761 Colección René Villarreal (CRV) 760 Colander, David Charles ed. 25289 1947- Brenner, Reuven ed. 25714 Middlebury Conference on economic issues (12 ; 1990) 25716 lcc BK mfcruz 0 0 0 0 CS BJB BJB CS 2023-04-10 0 HB 74.5 E24 1992 00000071120 2018-10-24 00:00:00 1 2018-10-24 BK