Economics: What went wrong with economics | The Economist

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  - Alan Greenspan, then chairman of the Federal Reserve
  - taken a beating
  - Ben Bernanke
  - Larry Summers
  - Mervyn King
  - Paul Krugman, winner of the Nobel prize in economics in 2008
  - Barry Eichengreen, a prominent American economic historian
  - backlash
  - slavish
  - prism
  - equate mistakes made by economists with a failure of economic liberalism
  - caveats
  - taming inflation
  - cavalier about
  - esoteric
  - So there were caveats aplenty
  - in the rough and tumble of
  - derivatives
  - The likes of
  - worrywarts
  - something was amiss
  - silos
  - blindspot
  - Keynes
  - purists
  - epitomise
  - plumbing
  - cacophony
  - Depression spawned Keynesianism
  - Central banks are busy bolting crude analyses of financial markets onto their
    workhorse models
  - skew market efficiency
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And how the discipline should change to avoid the mistakes of the past

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And how the discipline should change to avoid the mistakes of the past
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And how the discipline should change to avoid the mistakes of the past

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