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"A man who has looked into an economics textbook and concluded that economics is boring, is like a man who has read a primer on logistics and decided that the study of warfare must be dull. The notions of the great economists were world-shaking, and their mistakes nothing short of calamitous." - Robert Heilbroner, The Worldly Philosophers
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This is a recording of the debate hosted by the LSE Economic History Department, in collaboration with the LSESU Economic History Society and the LSESU Economics Society. http://lsesueconomichistory.co.uk/ http://lsesueconomicssociety.com/ Speakers: Proposition Team - Lord Robert Skidelsky & Dr. Ha-Joon Chang Opposition Team - Prof. Steve Pisckhe & Prof.
'The imperfect lessons that we can draw from history... are of inestimable, irreplaceable value, and no controlled experiment will ever be able to equal them. - Thomas Piketty 2014 The recent financial crisis has given rise to a fierce debate over the training that economics students receive, with many key figures arguing that a lack of knowledge of economic history contributing to the mistakes that were made.
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