Table of Contents

Introduction List of Contributors Part 1. What Do Employers of Economists Want? 1. Making Economics and Economists Better 2. What Makes a Good Economist? 3. What Economists Do - And How Universities Might Help ? 4. Economists in the Financial Markets 5. Economics: Purposes and Directions Post-Crisis 6. The Importance of Communicating Post-Crisis Economics Part 2. Economic Methodology and Implications for Teaching 7. What Post-Crisis Changes Does the Economics Discipline Need? 8. The Map Is Not the Territory: An Essay on the State of Economics 9. The Economy and Economic Theory in Crisis 10. Experience Matters in the Education of Economists 11. The Education of Economists in the Light of the Financial Crisis 12. Finance Is History! Part 3. Macroeconomics after the Crisis 13. Reforming the Macroeconomics Curriculum 14. Some Really Useful Macroeconomics 15. Teaching Macroeconomics 16. Rethinking Macroeconomics in the Wake of the Financial Crisis 17. Old Wine, New Bottles 18. Back to the Drawing Board for Macroeconomics Part 4. Reform of Undergraduate Economics Courses in the United Kingdom 19. Lessons from Teaching Economics in Schools 20. Teaching and Research in a UK University 21. Disseminating the Changes Already Underway in Higher Education Economics 22. Lessons from the LSE 100 Course 23. What Do Students Need? (And What Do They Want?)

About the Author

Diane Coyle, is a freelance economist, and a former advisor to the UK Treasury. She is a member of the UK Competition Commission and Vice Chairman of the BBC Trust, the governing body of the British Broadcasting Corporation

Reviews

'Superb! Diane Coyle has catalysed what is long overdue: candid self-questioning by economists of a discipline that did not anticipate the crisis and has barely changed since despite its self-evident shortcomings. Some spectacularly good reads. Economics can't stay the same after this book.' - Will Hutton, Principal of Hertford College Oxford, Observer columnist and chair The Big Innovation Centre 'With outstanding essays from the likes of Andy Haldane, John Kay and Andrew Lo, this book should be read by anyone interested - or anxious - about what economists do and how economics is taught.' - Tim Harford, author of "The Undercover Economist" and "Adapt" 'This volume will set the agenda for the debate of the next decade by economists and policy makers trying to avoid another financial crisis. The self-critical chapters by top-tier economists and hands-on practitioners provide fascinating insights into what went wrong and how the economics profession should set about to reform itself.' - Dr DeAnne Julius CBE, Chairman of Chatham House and former member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee