Another broad heading which should serve as a warning sign for an area I feel I need to work on.
My one-and-a-half years of economics are long behind me, and I wasn’t happy with the courses I took, even at the time, in that I felt that even when I correctly regurgitated the lessons given me I was still speaking nonsense. Honestly, in my microeconomics class we were made to solve problems regarding demand curves using rulers and graph paper, simultaneously sidestepping most maths and economics since Descartes and Smith, respectively – not to mention certain improvements in our computational machinery. While the genealogy of knowledge is doubtless important, there is a tradeoff to be made between respect for your forbears and starting with defective falsehoods, and starting economics from the first stumbling steps is not substantially better than starting physics from Aristotle.
Ahem.
I probably should have started straight into econometrics and reduced the cognitive dissonance from my concurrent studies in maths and human geography. Ah well, we live and learn. Fortunately, my experience leads me to believe that in general few matters of global importance turn upon my ill-considered career choices.
Things to look at: