This intellectual inertia at the top has left Yuan far from satisfied. ‘We have to storm the citadels,’ she told me, ‘we can’t just build our camps outside. You can have as many extra-curricular reading groups and MOOCs as you like but unless the university accepts that what you are doing is economics then it’s not seen as economics. In the end, we don’t just want to talk about the narrowness of the current teaching, we want to change it.’
