Chris Dillow — An academic problem?

Chris Dillow expands the debate about macro modeling.

Some mainstream economists have recently attacked DSGE models. Olivier Blanchard says (pdf) there are “many reasons to dislike” them. And Paul Romer says (pdf) they’ve caused “intellectual regress” into a “post real” doctrine which attributes economic fluctuations to imaginary causes.

I want to ask a question which is implicit in Romer’s paper: is the problem here (assuming it be such) specifically with economists, or rather with academia in general?
I ask for three reasons.…

Stumbling and Mumbling
An academic problem?
Chris Dillow | Investors Chronicle

Paul Robinson — ‘The alternative reality of propaganda’

Paul Robinson observes that there is propaganda, or at least wishful thinking, appearing in professional journals.

I think that there is another plausible POV. Many Americans, including in high places, are living in an alternate reality of their own social construction, telling each other what they want to hear. It's called group-think and being stuck in the bubble.

Irrussianality
‘The alternative reality of propaganda’
Paul Robinson | Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa