# Professor Paul Romer's work on macroeconomics is included in a list of writing that shaped economic thinking in 2016

1 Faculty News December 20, 2016 ![Bloomberg View logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/bloombergview_0.jpg?itok=47DlvcFA)>

Excerpt from [Bloomberg View](https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-12-20/the-writing-that-shaped-economic-thinking-in-2016) -- "Many people have criticized macroeconomics over the years, especially since the financial crisis. But perhaps none have done so as forcefully as [Paul Romer](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/paul-romer), the new chief economist of the World Bank. Romer takes his fellow macroeconomists to task for failing to reconcile their theories with reality, and accuses them of acting more like a religion than a science."

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