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Students predominantly come from high-income families and show left-leaning baseline political ideas, though training shifts many toward the right. They align most with U.S. graduate-student views on core economic propositions, with notable differences in macroeconomics and income distribution. 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Students\n\nHERBERT G.GRUBEL*  \n## Abstract\n\nThe responses to questions by 155 students revealed the following,mostimportant facts.The students predominantly came from families with highincomes.They have leftist political leanings,though through their training,more have turmed right than left.  \nThe students share most strongly the views on fundamental propositions ineconomics held by U.S.graduate students and less those held by Canadian andU.S.professionals.Students from different Canadian universities hold verysimilar views on price-theoretic propositions but rather widely differing viewson some important issues of macro-economics and income distribution.  \nThe most important finding is that,like their U.S.colleagues,Canadiangraduate students believe that for professional success it is more important tolearn technical skills rather than about institutions,history and policy.As aresult they end up poorly prepared for work on economic policy issues and theirresearch tends to lack real world relevance,even though real world and policyproblems attracted them to the graduate programs.  \n## Résumé\n\nLes réponses de 155 étudiants révèlent les faits suivants.Les étudiants viennenten majorité de familles de niveau socioeconomique élevé.Leurs idees de basesur la politique sont de gauche,quoiaque,suite a leur entrainement,la majoritépench vers la droite.  \nLes étudiants partagent leurs idées sur les théories économiquesfondamentales le plus fortement avec les étudiants post-gradués américains etmoins avec les professionnels canadiens ou américains.Les étudiants desdifférentes universités canadiennes ont des opinions très semblables sur lathéorie des prix et ses hypothèses,mais ne s'accordent pas en ce que concernecertains sujets importants en macro-economie et la distribution des revenus.  \n2 Herbert G.Grubel  \nLa fait saillant qui ressort de cette étude est que,come leurs pairs américains,les étudiants post-gradués canadiens croient que pour réussir dans la professionil est plus important d'apprendre certaines techiques plustôt que do connaitre lesinstitutions,I'histoire et la politique économique.En conséquence ils sont malpréparés a travailler sur les questions de politique économique.Leurs travaux derecherche ont peu ou pas de portee sur la realité courante malgré le fait que c'estcette réalité et les problèmes de politique économique qui les ont attirés vers lesprogrammes post-gradués.  \n\"Departments of economics are graduating a generation of idiots savants,brilliant at esoteric mathematics yet innocent of actual economic life.\"Thisquote from Kuttner(1985)was presented by Colander and Klamer(1987)in areview of 212 survey responses by U.S.graduate students in economics.Theseauthors had designed the survey in order to gain insights about the validity ofthe Kuttner observation and,more generally,the sociological characteristics ofgraduate students,their views on methodology and the importance andacceptance of certain ideas.  \nThis study reports the results of a similar survey of Canadian graduatestudents in economics.Many of the questions of the Colander and Klamer studywere used in order to shed some light on the similarity of Canadian and USgraduate programs.Some of the questions are also the same as those given toprofessional economists in Europe and the United States,as reported by Frey etal.(1984)and in Canada as reported by Block and Walker(1988).In additionsome questions have been included concerning the optimum use of mathematicsraised in a survey of academic economists by Grubel and Boland(1986).  \nThe first section discusses briefly the design for the survey and presents ademographic profile of the students who returned completed questionnaires.  \n## I Survey Design and Student Profile\n\nIn the Spring of 1987 questionnaires were distributed to professors ofeconomics at 23 Canadian universities;and these recipients were asked to makethe survey available to 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