John Cassidy: Gary Becker and the Economics Revolution That Wasn’t
To some extent, this inertia is inevitable. In economics, progress has always been gradual. Some years ago, in a study of how American economists reacted to the Great Depression, Barnard’s Perry Mehrling questioned the common perception that there was a sudden and mass conversion to Keynesianism. The reality, Mehrling discovered, was that most economists continued to teach what they had always taught. For Keynesianism to take the ascendancy, it needed a new generation of economists to mature.
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