This paper provides insight into the skill development activities of graduate students at U.S. institutions providing graduate education in economics. It documents the extent of student participation in and preparation for research and teaching activities while in graduate school. Over fifty...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Deirdre McCloskey -- 2. Kenneth G. Binmore -- 3. Herbert Gintis -- 4. Robert H. Frank -- 5. Matthew Rabin -- 6. William A. ("Buz") Brock -- 7. Duncan K. Foley -- 8. Richard B. Norgaard -- 9. Robert Axtell and H. Peyton Young -- 10. Kenneth Arrow...

Contents: Introduction -- Part I Methodological framework and methodology for economic policy as art 1. Why economists aren't as important as garbagemen -- 2. Vision, judgment, and disagreement among economists -- 3. The lost art of economics -- 4. The systemic failure of economic methodologists...

Economists seem to be everywhere in the media these days. But what exactly do today's economists do? What and how are they taught? Updating David Colander and Arjo Klamer's classic The Making of an Economist, this book shows what is happening in elite U.S. economics Ph.D. programs. By examining...