On Monday, April 27, 2009 at 07:48:00 (-0700) Jim Devine writes: >Max Sawicky wrote: >> Re: comparing efficiency of public v private institutions, if you are >> talking about service provision, you don't want a degree in econ or >> finance. You want to do public administration with Donald Kettl (U of >> P), Gene Bardach (Berkeley), or John Donahue (Kennedy School/Harvard). >> >> I can't speak on finance. > >economics _can_ help, though I'd say that most economics graduate >programs won't do so. Most (perhaps the vast majority of) econ. grad >programs these days are (1) totally focused on very abstract >mathematical models; and/or (2) pushing the Gospel of the Invisible >Hand. UT Austin used to be a hotbed of Institutionalism, but I don't >think that's true any more. > >Finance seems even less likely, since it's not about public finance; >it's about financial markets.
Yeah, but our financial market system is so heavily intertwined with public finance, I feel I need to understand financial markets as well. It's not that I don't know how to dig up some of this information --- Doug Henwood's *Wall Street* was exceptionally helpful to me --- but I want to master all of the details and I'd really like to build a very comprehensive behavioral model (simulation) of these things. Bill _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
