Re: Re: Post-Autism in the Micro

2002-09-06 Thread Ben Day
At 09:40 AM 9/5/2002 -0700, Eugene Coyle wrote: The current Galbraith piece is appealing, but professors need a more concrete road map at this point -- his level of abstraction sets the stage, but what to actually do? I dunno about this - even as an abstract map, I don't find Galbraith's

Re: Post-Autism in the Micro

2002-09-05 Thread Eugene Coyle
I have been reading the exchange. I was most impressed by the essay that triggered the debate. The Deirdre McCloskey piece in the current issue seems to me to be defensive and missing the point. I think I could pass the test he poses at the end -- I did have the Stigler book as my

Post-Autism in the Micro

2002-09-04 Thread Ben Day
Anyone else following the post-autism debate over the role of microeconomics and game theory in economics curricula? What do folks think of this? The latest Post-Autistic Review has short pieces by McCloskey and Galbraith - Solow and and Blanchard had taken shots at the Post-Autistic petition