Leigh's point about hyper-specialization is important. Professional journals tend to reinforce that tendency. Could Galbraith -- or even Keynes -- be published in a top economics journal today? Where are the equations?
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 10:57:53PM -0700, Leigh Meyers wrote: > What I see in academia is the tendency towards... hyper-specialization(?) > which in the long run, quite literally leaves the academician not seeing the > forest for the trees. What was it Einstein said about the atomic bomb... > something like: If I had known what they were going to do with my work > I would never have participated. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
