January 18, 2008
Economists Call for a Redesign of First-Year Core Courses for Graduate Students
Doctoral programs in economics should radically redesign the grueling first-year course work known as "the core," several prominent scholars said during a panel this month at the American Economic Association's annual meeting.
Many elements of the core were set in stone shortly after World War II, and the courses have not always evolved to make room for emerging fields of study, the scholars said. They also complained that the courses tend to emphasize the abstract manipulation of
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