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Last week Goldman Sachs published a note in favor of the Fed’s adopting a formal nominal GDP target, while Fed-watchers caught a whiff of a possible change in policy in the works.

The reputation of economics and economists, never high, has been a victim of the crash of 2008.

This one is different. Tiago, Benjamin and Floris have asked a dozen economists in the Bretton Woods hotel hall to reflect on the way their teaching has been affected by the current economic crisis and their answers, taken collectively, are quite puzzling.

Ok, time to deal with the elephant in the room: when is one theory better than the other? What is progress in economics?

The has been moving targets: sociology went first, then economics, then history, today it was political science and international relations.

In response to the walkout staged by students in the intro economics class at Harvard, the 51黑料爆料网历史事件 launched the syllabus project, 30 Ways to Teach Economics.

To celebrate its 100 years of publishing, the AER published a special issues, whose retrospective part consisted of , assembled by a committee which included Kenneth J. Arrow, B. Douglas Bernheim, Martin S. Feldstein, Daniel L. McFadden, James M. Poterba, and Robert M. Solow, and by Robert A. Margo.

Grand Bargain at last?

As part of the tremendous promotion campaign for the 8th edition of his textbook Economics, Samuelson was devoted a feature in the New York Times (February 5, 1970, p. 41).

So, how hard is it to write the history of exceptional figures? Shall we buy film cameras?