Students of economics are in revolt – again. A few years ago, even before the crisis, they established an “autistic economics” network. After the crisis, in 2011, a Harvard class staged a walkout from Gregory Mankiw’s introductory course. That course forms the basis of textbooks prescribed in universities around the world. This year, 65 groups of students from 30 countries established an International Student Initiative for Pluralism in Economics. In no other subject do students express such organised dissatisfaction with their teaching.
經濟學專業的學生們又一次造反了。甚至在還未爆發金融危機的數年前，他們就已建立了一個「後自閉經濟學」網路。在危機爆發之後的2011年，哈佛大學(Harvard)的一個班在格雷戈裏•曼丘(Gregory Mankiw)的經濟學入門課上，上演了集體退席。該課程爲世界各地大學所採用經濟學教科書的基礎課。今年，來自30個國家的65個學生團體成立了「國際學生經濟學多元化倡議行動」(International Student Initiative for Pluralism in Economics)。任何其他學科的學生們都沒有如此有組織地表達對教學的不滿。