1879年,弗朗西斯·沃尔克——后来成了美国经济学会的第一任主席——在一篇短文中想解释“为什么普通人往往看经济学家不顺眼”。是因为,“传统和信念把人及其职业、环境联系起来,并令他们做出有违经济理论预测的行为”。一个多世纪过后,普通公众继续以怀疑的眼光看待经济学家。同行们大多辩解说,这种态度至少部分源于 In 1879, Francis Volcker - who later became the first president of the American Economic Association - wanted to explain in an essay, “Why Ordinary People See Economists Do not Like Their Eyes.” Because “traditions and beliefs connect people with their profession and environment and make them behave in ways that are not predictive of economic theory.” More than a century later, the general public continued to treat economists with suspicion. Most of the colleagues argued that this attitude stems at least in part from that