[AndrewKemendo]

My undergrad was primarily in Econ, and it was a pretty common saying that "Nobody is a Macroeconomist."

After Economics moved hard away from Political Economy and into Mathematics some time ago, that kind of broad economics is rare so not really considered the same way or has the same amount of academic discussion.

[ue_]

But why? Doesn't that shut out a range of economic theories from the discussion? Classic political economy and its critiques (Marx et al.) I feel are still relevant and useful. If they are not to be studied in economics, then where?

[AndrewKemendo]

Yes in fact it does. Those are all considered "heterodox" economics and are basically ignored.

They are moreso discussed in sociology and philosophy and to a limited extent graduate courses in economics.

[wjnc]

Sociology tends to have more differentiation in what sources are taken as 'canon'. You can probably still find Marxist sociologists, although the field has somewhat collapsed since the 80's.