Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger · chapter 2 · id poor-charlies-almanack-c2-09-munger-claims-economics-depart
“Munger claims economics departments fail students by not teaching enough psychology, leading to flawed models of human behavior.”
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Receipts
Angrist et al., 'Economic Research Evolves,' AER (2017)DOI registry: valid
Behavioral economics has grown from near-zero to 5-8% of publications in top economics journals since 2000.
Beshears & Gino, 'Leaders as Decision Architects,' HBR (2015)DOI registry: valid
MBA programs increasingly teach behavioral decision-making, but core micro courses still rely heavily on rational-agent assumptions.
This claim is a stable, citable object. If you can falsify a verdict, tell us — corrections are loud here.