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69 sats \ 4 replies \ @SimpleStacker 12 Jan \ parent \ on: Economists Need Not Apply (FT, Soumaya Keynes) econ

Econ curricula at top universities tend to be pretty mathematically rigorous including heavy math, stat, and computer requirements

Maybe that's another explanation? The Econ profs got too ahead of their skis in terms of the technical requirements and forgot that most of the students aren't interested in that, and if they were they wouldn't be majoring in Econ.

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12 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined 12 Jan

The obvious answer is to just make econ a graduation requirement.

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81 sats \ 2 replies \ @SimpleStacker 12 Jan

Heh, I sit on a university wide curriculum committee and the biggest fights are exactly over which courses all undergrads are gonna be required to take. You can imagine why

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67 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 12 Jan

I don't have to imagine. I've been involved in those discussions as well.

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @denlillaapan OP 13 Jan

Those are the wackiest, most blatantly self-interested convos (never partaken, obvs, only heard of). But my god, isn't the first observation among everyone in that room that everyone's incentive is to force students to take their specific thing...?

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