Stephen King, Group Chief Economist of HSBC, notes that when he asks recent university graduates (and HSBC recruits a large number of them) how much time they spent in lectures and seminars on the financial crisis, “most admitted that the subject had not even been raised.” Indeed, according to King, “Young economists arrive in the financial world with little or no knowledge of how the financial system operates.”
Ökonomie-Nobelpreisträger Robert Lucas argumentierte, dass die Krise deshalb nicht prognostiziert wurde, weil die ökonomische Theorie besagt, dass solche Ereignisse eben nicht prognostiziert werden können.