I assure you that my profession makes near-zero effort to train our undergrads for the job market. We’re easy on our students, even at elite schools like Berkeley and Princeton. Frankly, most econ professors practice a variant of the old Soviet adage, “We pretend to teach, they pretend to learn.” During four years of study, our better students acquire only two marketable skills: elementary statistics, and ability to calculate a present discounted value.
