"Let's play Fantasy Economics. It's a simple game based on Fantasy Football, where fans select a dream squad from the Premier League and win points if their players score, create or save goals. (...) Putting a team together of economists no longer with us is a breeze. A team of dead economists drawn from all strands of the discipline might include Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Thomas Malthus, Karl Marx, Alfred Marshall, John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich Hayek, Richard Kahn, Joseph Schumpeter, Hyman Minsky and Herman Daly. (...) Picking a modern 11 of comparable quality is a lot tougher. "
El artículo sugiere dos jugadores de un probable equipo moderno, pero no más que eso: Stiglitz y Krugman (yo también agregaría a Rodrik y a otros tantos). Pero, ¿por qué este abandono de la macro y los grandes nombres en sus filas?
"Until the crisis broke in 2007, it was assumed that the big picture was largely sorted and economists needed to concentrate on micro-economics, where much good work has been done, incidentally. (...) As a profession, economics not only has nothing to say about what caused the world to come to the brink of financial collapse last autumn, but also a supreme lack of interest in it. (...) There is no Keynes, Schumpeter or Hayek out there with answers to our predicament."
Micro, modelización y consecuente falta de interés por las grandes variables. Como dicen en un post de Freakonomics en el que se comenta a The Guardian, la dificultad para armar el equipo está en la forma en que la "ciencia" económica se desarrolla y progresa actualmente:
"The single easiest way to make a mark in a modern macro paper is to solve a problem that is really, really hard mathematically. Even if it is not that relevant to anything, it is seen as a sign that the author has “impressive skills,” which is enough to get a job — and even tenure sometimes — at top universities."
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1 comentario:
Greg tiene que estar, sino es solamente por su democratizador libro de Principios. Si queres meter a los nac y pop Stiglitz y Krugman me la banco. Ponelo a Big Ben al arco, con los cascotazos que esta atajando ahora la rompería en la portería. Ponelo a Levitt como habilidoso y por darle una vuelta de tuerca muy interesante a la economía (y generar miles de clones de Freakonomics).
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