Maeve Cohen on Rethinking Economics

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🗓️ 3 December 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Maeve Cohen, Co-director of Rethinking Economics, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about her organization and its efforts to change economics education. Cohen, who co-founded the Post-Crash Economics Society, argues for a more human-centered approach to economics that would be less confident in its policy prescriptions and more honest about the significance of its underlying assumptions.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Russ Roberts, of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
0:12.6	Our website is econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this podcast, and find
0:17.6	links and other information related to today's conversation.
0:20.5	We'll also find our archives where you can listen to every episode we've ever done going
0:24.8	back to 2006.
0:27.0	Our email address is mailadycontalk.org.
0:29.0	We'd love to hear from you.
0:33.6	Today is November 8, 2018, and before introducing today's guest, I want to correct an error I made
0:38.2	in a recent episode.
0:40.2	At the end of the episode with Alan Lightman, I read a quote from Tom Stopperds' play
0:45.8	Arcadia, and in the middle of that quote, Stopperds' character quotes from the poem,
0:50.8	She Walks in Beauty.
0:52.8	She walks in Beauty like the night of cloudless climbs and starry skies and all that's best
0:57.4	of dark and bright meat in her aspect and her eyes.
1:01.7	Four beautiful lines.
1:03.0	I pointed out incorrectly that that poet of those lines was Shelley.
1:07.7	In fact, it's Lord Byron.
1:08.8	They overlapped almost exactly in their lifespan.
1:11.2	It's an inexcusable error, though.
1:13.8	I apologize to Lord Byron.
1:15.6	And it's a pretty bad mistake because Byron, while not an onstage character in Arcadia,
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