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Article: Economics Without Time: A Science Blind to the Forces of Historical Change.
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- Southern Economic Journal
- Article date:
- April 1, 1995
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Professor Graeme Donald Snooks does not like the way most members of the economics profession undertake their work nowadays. Too many are "gameplayers," too few are "realists." The former dedicate themselves to the refinement of models and techniques, publishing esoteric articles in journals comprehensible to only a few specialists. "Ironically, the increasing precision and abstract nature of economics has [sic] been accompanied by the profession's growing status and influence. The less it is understood by the layman the more it is respected" [p. 19]. So what's the problem? Well, within the profession, economic historians get no respect, especially economic historians like ...