Model Pupils, Underachievers, and Troublemakers : School Reports for Some Economists was a presentation comparing the behaviour of orthodox and heterodox academic (macro)economists before and after the Global Financial Crisis.
The presentation was given to an audience at the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution on a summer evening in 2017 on the invitation of the convener of the Business and Economics Group.
Leading voices in the academy were imagined as pupils in a boarding school – after St Trinian’s – receiving their school reports and being marked on their end of term assignment : understanding the crisis of 2007/8. Heterodox economists were presented as model pupils with orthodox economists acting incompetently, in bad faith, or both.
I had recently left my (variable hours) teaching post at the University of Bath where I had studied the financial crisis and related matters in Graduate School. I was a house guest of the convener and his wife for a fortnight during the summer. The British school year starts in September, and ends in July.
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