Energy in Australia: Peak oil, solar power and Asia's economic growth

[hunter]

2. People who want to call themselves "economists" ought to have...

... a solid understanding of reality-based complex systems first, maybe undergraduate degrees in ecology, various sorts of biology and chemistry, or engineering, before stepping into any upper division or graduate economics course.

It seems to me many economists drift off into impossible worlds of ideology, circular reasoning, tautology, and magical thinking. If the tools seem to work for awhile, it's often because most everyone believes the tools work.

It's continuing to rain, so the rain dances must be working... and if drought comes, we must not be dancing correctly or sincerely enough.