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31 Mar 2015 Conversations with Tyler Jeffrey Sachs on Charter Cities and How to Reform Graduate Economics Education (Live at Mason)
“We avoid that, I think, conceptually, because if you study anything too specific it’s out of date in 10 years.”
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- Jeffrey Sachs
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- 31 Mar 2015
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Concretely, at the graduate level, what would you do with them? Economics. We avoid that, I think, conceptually, because if you study anything too specific it’s out of date in 10 years. So we study general principles. I think that’s epistemologically the weakness of our field. We want to be the four underlying, natural forces of the social universe rather than studying specifics. More like the anthropologists.…
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