Economists are facing a recession
https://www.ft.com/content/eb080c14-e946-4806-ad66-81b2bb8c67ba
Demand for their work is down as a hiring crunch hits.
SOUMAYA KEYNES notes:
Hiring freezes helped to halve the number of US full-time academic postings between 2019 and 2025. In the most recent year alone, listings fell by more than during the Great Recession. And according to the most recent comparable data, since 2019 recruitment has shriveled faster for economists than philosophers or linguists. Oof.
https://www.ft.com/content/eb080c14-e946-4806-ad66-81b2bb8c67ba
Demand for their work is down as a hiring crunch hits.
SOUMAYA KEYNES notes:
Hiring freezes helped to halve the number of US full-time academic postings between 2019 and 2025. In the most recent year alone, listings fell by more than during the Great Recession. And according to the most recent comparable data, since 2019 recruitment has shriveled faster for economists than philosophers or linguists. Oof.