David Colander: Economics

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“In reading the economics journals and talking with newly-minted PhDs, it is as if Keynesian economics never existed.”

David Colander

[David Colander, “Functional Finance, New Classical Economics and Great Great Grandsons” (2002).
2000s

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“Keynes is dead; dynamic programming; Keynes is still dead. That’s the way Stanford graduate economics students recently summed up what they had learned in their core graduate macroeconomics course.”

David Colander

David Colander, "The Keynesian Method, Complexity, and the Training of Economists" (2009)
2000s

Way , Learning , Dead

“In complexity economics one is not searching out the truth; one is simply searching for a statistical fit that can be temporarily useful in our understanding of the economy.”

David Colander

David Colander, Complexity and the History of Economic Thought, Routledge, London and New York, 2000, p. 6.
2000s

Truth , Search , Understanding