Calls for radical reform make for good newspaper copy but ignore the practicalities of achieving change. I was disappointed by his column with Jonathan Aldred in last Sunday’s paper, which pretends that it’s only a beleaguered but wise minority of economists who want to see curriculum change, and dismisses the CORE curriculum that’s under development without – on the internal evidence of the column – having looked at it. And a good thing too – far too important to be left to us economists.Įconomics: The User’s Guide: A Pelican Introduction (Pelican Books) It starts: “Why are people not very interested in economics?” A false premise surely? All the evidence from rising student numbers to popular economics book sales (not to mention the Piketty phenomenon) is that people are *hugely* interested in economics. Ha-Joon Chang’s new book, Economics: The User’s Guide, is sitting enticingly on my desk.
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