Diane Coyle — The mainstream economics curriculum needs an overhaul

The undergraduate economics curriculum is hugely influential, since today’s undergraduates are tomorrow’s policymakers. The massive policy failures before and after the Global Crisis have thus prompted a rethink. This column argues that there is a reasonable degree of consensus on the need for curriculum reform, but no agreement on whether this means rejecting the basic building blocks of the subject. Nevertheless, undergraduate courses in five or ten years will almost surely have changed considerably in character.

I would change "surely" to "hopefully." There's no limit to ignorance or self-interest.

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The mainstream economics curriculum needs an overhaul
Diane Coyle | Managing Director of Enlightenment Economics