So economics teaching isn't the problem? | 29 comments (29 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: So economics teaching isn't the problem? (4.00 / 5)

"The world economy is more complicated than any of us can understand and getting more so by the day."
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"If economists were honest according to this piece, their advice is not worth more then that of a priest or a court astrologer."

If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
— John Maynard Keynes

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jan 1st, 2015 at 03:24:16 AM EST
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Nothing against dentists, but this could be your best post ever.

If it all were so simple as pulling teeth.

(Here insert video of the father who tied a string to a home made rocket and his son's tooth, fired it up, set it off, and Lo!, Tooth Gone.)

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

by Crazy Horse on Thu Jan 1st, 2015 at 07:20:20 AM EST
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So economics teaching isn't the problem? | 29 comments (29 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)