Lars P. Feld (Walter Eucken Institute), Sarah Necker (Freiburg), and Bruno S. Frey (Zurich): Happiness of Economists. Oliver Kessler (Erfurt): Ignorance and the Sociology of Economics. Christina McRorie (Virginia): The Emptiness of Modern Economics: Why the Dismal Science Needs a Richer Moral Anthropology. Zubin Jelveh (NYU) and Bruce Kogut and Suresh Naidu (Columbia): Political Language in Economics (and on how economists aren’t as nonpartisan as we think). Do economists lean Left? Yes, and they always have. David Fields on competing visions in economics as a social science: A primer. The economist as culture hero: Jonathan Clarke on Robert Shiller’s Irrational Exuberance. Andrew Gelman on how economics is like 1950s Freudian psychology. Joe Francis on the rise and fall of debate in economics. Justin Wolfers on how economists came to dominate the conversation. Henry Farrell on how economists aren’t “superior” just because. Are economists overrated? There’s “Room for Debate” at the New York Times. Are rumours of the dismal science's demise greatly exaggerated, or have things really changed? Schumpeter and me: Tom Streithorst on how the financial crisis has taught us economics is too important to be left to the economists. Noah Smith on what economics gets right, on economists’ biggest failure, and on why economists are paid so much. How big is the sexism problem in economics? This article’s co-author is anonymous because of it.
