Jeg ønsker å anbefale en kort artikkel fra Ludwig von Mises Institute, som omhandler oppfatningen om at økonomi er nødt til å være så teknisk at ytterst få har forutsetninger for å si noe meningsfullt om faget. Artikkelen tar for seg uttalelser som den følgende:
Everyone understands that seismology is probably hard enough that one probably has little useful to say without first getting a PhD in it. The key is that macroeconomics, which involves aggregating the actions of millions to generate outcomes, where the constituents pieces are human beings, is probably every bit as hard. This is a message that would-be commentators just have to learn to accept. For my part, seventeen years after my first PhD coursework, I still feel ill at ease with my grasp of many issues, and I am fairly confident that this is not just a question of limited intellect. – Athreya 2010
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