David Colander and Arjo Klamer sent a questionnaire to graduate students at top-ranking economic programs. Table 3, below, is stunning. It lends support to Robert Kuttner's (1985) statement, summarizing Leontief and Galbraith's views, that "Departments of economics are graduating a generation of
idiots savants, brilliant at esoteric mathematics yet innocent of actual economic life."
[Idiots savants was later used in a document summarizing the state of economic education -- I'm not sure if it was in reference to Kuttner's paper.]
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