Economía Popular: Shiller

Un interesante artículo de Shiller en donde argumenta a favor de promover la economía popular. Esto es, entender que la economía no es una ciencia exacta; que el individuo es el centro de esta ciencia y que hay que entenderlo y aprender a comunicaros con él si queremos mejorar este entendimiento. A People’s Economics
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...Successful popular economics involves the reader or listener, in some sense, as a collaborator. That, of course, means that economists must be willing to include new and original theories that are not yet received doctrine among professional specialists.

....The financial crisis delivered a fatal blow to that overconfidence in scientific economics. It is not just that the profession didn’t forecast the crisis. Their models, taken literally, sometimes suggested that a crisis of this magnitude couldn’t happen.
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One way to interpret this is that the economics profession was not fully accounting for the economy’s human element, an element that can’t be reduced to mathematical analysis.