Archive for August, 2007

On the rhetoric of Economics

“The average … economist is white, middle-class, male, swamped withliterature to absorb or referee, intimidated by his superiors and colleagues,goaded along by two creeds - ‘publish or perish’ and ‘conform or perish’ - and unhappy with the state of current economics. In addition, the typical graduate student - also male, middle class, white - believes [...]