Economists working on the border of economics and psychology, for example, argued that behavioral finance, in which human foibles are brought to bear to explain the failure of the so-called efficient markets hypothesis, would be given more prominence. Economic historians, meanwhile, argued that future textbooks would embed analysis of recent experience in the longer-term historical record.
比如，游走在经济学和心理学之间的经济学家指出，行为金融——在这个学科中，人性弱点被用来解释所谓的有效市场假说的失灵——将会获得更重要的地位。与此同时，经济史家认为未来教科书会加入在长期历史记录中分析最新经验的内容。这（和其他内容一起）有助于未来经济学学生更严肃地研究经济制度的演变。