Richard Holden Is Wrong. Ross Gittins Is Right About The Economics Rot
Those are all reasonable and true statements. It was one of Gittins’ better columns. But not according to Richard Holden, an economics professor at the UNSW Business School. In this publication, he described it as a “shocker”. According to Holden, the suggestion that economists don’t “care about how the economy really works” was “wrong, silly and offensive”.