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& #39;s riddled with terms like "human capital" and critiques taxation as an impediment to economic growth. https://twitter.com/ecmaEditors/status/1305868975289532426">https://twitter.com/ecmaEdito...

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& #39;re not. It& #39;s not in the curriculum. It& #39;s not deemed important. This needs to change.

I recommend reaching out to colleagues in your institution& #39;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& #39;s an interdisciplinary conversation. Right now, it& #39;s one-sided.

Historians discuss economic policies and how it& #39;s shaped people& #39;s lives in very real ways--poverty, homelessness, starvation.

In Econ, it& #39;s a numbers game. They literally are missing the *human* element.

I have no recommendations on how to fix it. I& #39;m just a graduate student surviving the second of two major recessions since graduating college.

But at least we& #39;re aware of the problem. That& #39;s the first step in figuring out how to solve it.