Comments on: Those damned Economists

By: Chris Hall

Chris Hall — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:02:14 +0000

Examples please!

How about this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improving_Access_to_Psychological_Therapies

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:24:13 +0000

and how things interrelate to help make life better in all sorts of ways.

Examples please!

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:51:10 +0000

You musn’t lump all economists together any more than all medics, computer scientists or music critics. The recession was largely caused by greedy bankers advised by some half-educated economists (lacking study of history). But it is better educated economists who have helped governments avoid recession becoming a 1930s style slump – warding off those politicians who would cut public spending and so make things worse. And as for using economic tools “outside their field” there are a host of examples of economists, often in cooperation with others such as pyschologists, using understanding of incentives, markets, human behaviour and how things interrelate to help make life better in all sorts of ways.

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:34:41 +0000

Indeed. If you laid all the worlds economists end-to-end, they would never reach a conclusion.

By: Guitartim

Guitartim — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:44:40 +0000

The events of the last few years suggest that the economists aren’t even that great at their own field of alleged expertise, let alone anyone else’s…