History Twitter, I am not shocked by this.

The absence of true humanities education is readily apparent in any economics curriculum. Open any economics textbook and it's riddled with terms like "human capital" and critiques taxation as an impediment to economic growth. https://twitter.com/ecmaEditors/status/1305868975289532426

We as historians assume that because WE are aware of Keynes, Marx, & Smith that this means that economists are ALSO aware of what these economic policies MEANT for REAL people over time.

They're not. It's not in the curriculum. It's not deemed important. This needs to change.

I recommend reaching out to colleagues in your institution's Econ departments to see what texts are assigned & request a copy.

Only by reading it will you be able to counteract it with your own curriculum, unless you can forge a way through interdepartmental conversation.

It's an interdisciplinary conversation. Right now, it's one-sided.

Historians discuss economic policies and how it's shaped people's lives in very real ways--poverty, homelessness, starvation.

In Econ, it's a numbers game. They literally are missing the *human* element.

I have no recommendations on how to fix it. I'm just a graduate student surviving the second of two major recessions since graduating college.

But at least we're aware of the problem. That's the first step in figuring out how to solve it.