My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the dinner table.
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I gravitated to economics because I'm interested in how people coordinate and collaborate with each other. Economics studies all the ways people get along with each other.
I've felt for some time that economics needs to be taught differently by economists who actually have had experience making a payroll or investing on Wall Street. When economics is taught by pure academics, watch out.
I got into economics because I wanted to make things better for the average person.
I had the good fortune to spend hours with my parents around the dinner table having debates on politics and economics.
I'm a free-market economist from years and years back, and I've never veered from that.
I'm no economist. I don't even play one on TV. I'm just a husband, a father, a taxpayer.
Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
Economists create their own worlds. We're like little gods with our artificial economics, wanting to see what happens.
That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more intense as the questions raised by the sociology of science became more prominent.
I may be only a fish and chip shop lady, but some of these economists need to get their heads out of the textbooks and get a job in the real world. I would not even let one of them handle my grocery shopping.