The History of Economic Education in the United States

The difficulty of going from the undergraduate level training to the graduate level training is so massive I mean, and it's always, it's always the math for America. You would learn about the economics content like right away like Cambridge or Oxford. In France you had two tradition and you can still see that very late in the 20th century. There is one tradition whereby economics is attached to low schools basically. Like they were only economics department or economics curricula starting in the 70s late 60s. And quite late in the studies it was like, oh, there you can actually do some analysis of competition with these tools, and when to apply them to economics question.