What's the use of economics? : teaching the dismal science after the crisis

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What's the use of economics? : teaching the dismal science after the crisis

edited by Diane Coyle

London Publishing Partnership, c2012

  • : pbk

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With the financial crisis continuing after five years, people are questioning why economics failed either to send an adequate early warning ahead of the crisis or to resolve it quickly. The gap between important real-world problems and the workhorse mathematical model-based economics being taught to students has become a chasm. Students continue to be taught as if not much has changed since the crisis, as there is no consensus about how to change the curriculum. Meanwhile, employer discontent with the knowledge and skills of their graduate economist recruits has been growing. This book examines what economists need to bring to their jobs, and the way in which education in universities could be improved to fit graduates better for the real world. It is based on an international conference in February 2012, sponsored by the UK Government Economic Service and the Bank of England, which brought employers and academics together. Three themes emerged: the narrow range of skills and knowledge demonstrated by graduates; the need for reform of the content of the courses they are taught; and the barriers to curriculum reform. While some issues remain unresolved, there was strong agreement on such key issues as the strengthening of economic history, the teaching of inductive as well as deductive reasoning, critical evaluation and communication skills, and a better alignment of lecturers' incentives with the needs of their students.

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Introduction List of Contributors Part 1. What Do Employers of Economists Want? 1. Making Economics and Economists Better 2. What Makes a Good Economist? 3. What Economists Do - And How Universities Might Help ? 4. Economists in the Financial Markets 5. Economics: Purposes and Directions Post-Crisis 6. The Importance of Communicating Post-Crisis Economics Part 2. Economic Methodology and Implications for Teaching 7. What Post-Crisis Changes Does the Economics Discipline Need? 8. The Map Is Not the Territory: An Essay on the State of Economics 9. The Economy and Economic Theory in Crisis 10. Experience Matters in the Education of Economists 11. The Education of Economists in the Light of the Financial Crisis 12. Finance Is History! Part 3. Macroeconomics after the Crisis 13. Reforming the Macroeconomics Curriculum 14. Some Really Useful Macroeconomics 15. Teaching Macroeconomics 16. Rethinking Macroeconomics in the Wake of the Financial Crisis 17. Old Wine, New Bottles 18. Back to the Drawing Board for Macroeconomics Part 4. Reform of Undergraduate Economics Courses in the United Kingdom 19. Lessons from Teaching Economics in Schools 20. Teaching and Research in a UK University 21. Disseminating the Changes Already Underway in Higher Education Economics 22. Lessons from the LSE 100 Course 23. What Do Students Need? (And What Do They Want?)

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