http://chronicle.com/article/Notre-Dame-to-Dissolve/48460/
I am not big on the heteros. But I am not sure this is justified. Anyone with the inside scoop? This is a rumor forum after all.
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Demise of the Heteros at Notre Dame
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That news is almost a year old.
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Well at least they now have a third rate mainstream program...I am sure the right-wing dean who instituted the policy is happy with their DSGEs, RBS and NK stuff.
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^hahaha...the dean must be pleased with the models that do not focus on instability and crises.
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^Actually, the dean is likely pleased that there are now models coming out of the econ department, instead of rants and meaningless prose.
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hahaha...models with little social utility. you need to understand heterodox types have complex models also.
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^No, what they have are jumbles of words. As a result, they can never be proven wrong, because they don't make concrete falsifiable predictions. Complain about whatever you want, but don't try to fool anyone into thinking that these guys are producing anything except words and opinions. And we all know about opinions.
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hahaha...there are some serious het models with clear testable implications out there.
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"When news of the proposal to split the department was first reported in the media, it generated concern in the profession. One leading neoclassical economist, Robert Solow of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, responded to the news with a Jan. 30 letter to Notre Dame president Fr. Edward Malloy. In an attempt to dissuade him from supporting the split, Solow wrote, “Economics, like any discipline, ought to welcome unorthodox ideas, and deal with them intellectually as best it can. To conduct a purge, as you are doing, sounds like a confession of incapacity.”
Something much of the rest of the discipline would do well to learn.
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This is your chance New School of UMass Amherst to pick up some more faculty.
But beware, administrations may tire of you excluding mainstream faculty and may one day come aknocking'Posted 1 month ago #