經濟學

Why is the field of economics still so elitist?
爲何經濟學仍是「精英」專業?

About 8 per cent of UK students went to private school, but nearly 20 per cent of economics students did
哈福德:大多數在大學生中代表性不足的人羣在經濟學課程中的代表性更低。這個專業有太多學生來自較爲優越的社會經濟背景。

There is no shortage of white men in economics. That is clear enough from a glance down the very male, very white list of winners of the discipline’s Nobel memorial prize. There are a few exceptions: the black Caribbean-born scholar Sir Arthur Lewis won in 1979; the first woman to win, Elinor Ostrom, did not do so until 2009, astonishingly late. Other non-white, non-male winners are few and far between.

經濟學領域不缺白人男性。看看經濟學諾貝兒獎(Nobel)得主名單就夠清楚了——男性、白人的身影比比皆是。中間有幾個例外:1979年獲諾貝兒經濟學獎、加勒比海出生的黑人學者阿瑟•李維士爵士(Sir Arthur Lewis);2009年成爲首位獲得該獎項的女性伊莉諾•歐斯壯(Elinor Ostrom)——這個時間晚得令人喫驚。其他非白人、非男性的得主如鳳毛麟角。

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