Other Things Equal (1992) [pdf]

I think it happens to the dumb and the smart ones, maybe not at Chicago and some of the big US unis, but my economics instruction included a large amount of statistics that were never even explained, sometimes it was just memorize this formula - I could not develop an intuitive understanding of anything being dropped on these islands. Being decent at maths I expected to be able to follow along, but couldn't. I brought a much more capable friend to class and he confirmed that while there was real maths underneath it wasn't being presented and bits were missing from what they were showing us. It goes on, they are forever talking about IS LM curves "shifting", it doesn't shift, but the point at which it is rotating is not on your chart. To that particular professor's credit, he at least knew (kinda) what they were not teaching us and could answer my ring in's questions. I was pretty disappointed overall by the courses at the University of Sydney, it was already a degree mill and this was over a decade ago.