Is math or English really the issue? Seems like it's the game itself. Economics as a professoin seems primarily oriented to producing esoteric knowledge. The purpose of esoteric knowledge isn't to understand things outside the profession, but to sort and rank economist within the profession--like Hesse's Glass Bead Game. A few talent…
Is math or English really the issue? Seems like it's the game itself. Economics as a professoin seems primarily oriented to producing esoteric knowledge. The purpose of esoteric knowledge isn't to understand things outside the profession, but to sort and rank economist within the profession--like Hesse's Glass Bead Game. A few talented and motivated economists try to produce exoteric knowledge of great insight. These latter few either rise quickly to the top of the profession or find more compatible vocations as essayists and authors outside academia as public intellectuals.
Is math or English really the issue? Seems like it's the game itself. Economics as a professoin seems primarily oriented to producing esoteric knowledge. The purpose of esoteric knowledge isn't to understand things outside the profession, but to sort and rank economist within the profession--like Hesse's Glass Bead Game. A few talented and motivated economists try to produce exoteric knowledge of great insight. These latter few either rise quickly to the top of the profession or find more compatible vocations as essayists and authors outside academia as public intellectuals.