[logicalfails]

In 2017, I listened to a highly cited Political Economist rant about how

"The whole damn field is turning into a bunch of Data Monkeys"

Referring to the rise of CS and DS minded economists in the field. His top student was a computer science major...

[bonsai_spool]

> Political Economist rant about how

Political economists are explicitly less interested in the quantitative side of economics - which is why they call themselves political economists.

Thus, the comment about data makes a lot of sense, and isn't evidence of what is going on with economists

[logicalfails]

His work and department was very quant heavy. I'd say the majority of his students spend most of their time in Python/R cleaning datasets running models

[bonsai_spool]

I'm not disagreeing with you, and I also know political economists from that time who complain that their discipline is changing. It just has very little to do with what this article is discussing.