Economics professors refused to discuss the 2008 crisis in class

Evidence

I have been informed of a (tenured) professor of economics at my own school, the University of Notre Dame, who, while teaching advanced macroeconomics in spring 2009, was importuned by some of his students to discuss the crisis that was then breaking out all around. After all, if you can’t examine and debate a current economic crisis in a macro class, then wherever should you expect to learn about it in a modern university? Yet the students were curtly informed that it wasn’t on the syllabus, and there was nothing about it in the assigned textbook, and the instructor therefore did not wish to diverge from the set lesson plan. And he didn’t. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 441