Joshua Gans revisits life among the econ, 50 years after the classic investigation by Axel Leijonhufvud. In Leijonhufvud’s time, economics was dominated by two super-castes which worshipped different totems. Today, however, the super-castes are hardly to be seen and the old totems have been replaced by a singular new totem: The technology powering the Econ […]

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