Perplexed comments on Some Heuristics for Evaluating the Soundness of the Academic Mainstream in Unfamiliar Fields - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Perplexed 17 February 2011 12:53:43AM 0 points [-]

I can't even identify the orthodox positions in macroeconomics.

Really? If you were to take the four top-selling Macroeconomics textbooks for undergrad Econ majors, or the four top-selling Macroeconomics textbooks for economics graduate schools, those books would be presenting different models? That would surprise me, though I have to admit, I haven't looked at a modern econ textbook in thirty years.