In Books & Culture, Robert Whaples, professor of economics at Wake Forest, reviews the updated The Making of an Economist (Redux), an examination of the country's best graduate programs in economics and the process by which they "turn a select group of bright students into the analytical economists that society has come to hate, yet revere." Whaples notes that the first edition of this book "became must reading for those considering taking the plunge" into an economics graduate program. … [Read more...] about The Making of an Economist