David Colander

TL;DR: In this article, a study of graduate education in economics aims to show how economists are trained and what values and techniques are instilled during this training, and the authors offer conclusions about which qualities and skills are encouraged and which are discouraged as students progress to the PhD, the badge of certification for the discipline.

TL;DR: The authors argue that economics is undergoing a fundamental shift in its method, away from neoclassical economics and into something new, which is centered on dynamics, recursive methods and complexity theory.

TL;DR: Economists not only failed to anticipate the financial crisis; they may have contributed to it with risk and derivatives models that, through spurious precision and untested theoretical assumptions, encouraged policy makers and market participants to see more stability and risk sharing than was actually present.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a framework underlying Colander's methodology and introduce Colander´s methodology for economic policy within that framework, as well as his view on the methodology for microeconomics and macroeconomics.

TL;DR: The term "neoclassical economics" was coined by as mentioned in this paper, who declared it to be dead and proposed an economist-assisted terminasia of the term, which is the only way to define the content of economics.