Reply #25: agreed [View All]

[salin]

but were it the first of several months to follow - then (helping bush as it may) more and more people would be finding more job opportunities.

My late father, a Harvard trained PhD in economics, never lost site of the human side to the numbers - nor the long term implications (in human terms) of trends. His biggest concern as the field moved more and more to the primary domain of econometrics was that the human - or social science grounding - of the field was often being lost in analyses. Shortly after he died I began my own doctoral studies, though I was in a policy program and not studying economics, my thesis advisor was an economist and many of my colleagues were picking up economic masters degrees along with their policy phds. Many of that department's professors (and their colleagues in the b-school) are national leaders (with a few nobel prizes spread around.) While it was not my field I was surrounded by it - and I would have to agree with my late fathers' assessment. Sometimes that carries its ways into my commentaries. No offense intended, just a little context.