Apparently Business School graduates are not as questioning as they need to be.

I haven’t seen much indication of economic / business history being incorporated into the Columbia curriculum, but there have been a few What the Hell Happened type ‘crisis’ lectures and there are often ‘crisis’ footnotes mentioned briefly at relevant points of the core curriculum.
The faculty has been developing new ‘Financial Crisis‘ content (which is available online to all students), here’s the official CBS blurb:

As the financial and economic crisis has unfolded over the past year, members of the Columbia Business School faculty have been quick to bring timely topics into the classroom. They are developing new teaching materials – connecting aspects of the crisis with subject matter in virtually every part of the curriculum.

The financial and economic crisis has brought widespread hardship through unemployment, home foreclosures, losses in savings, and a decline in confidence in the banking system. The consequences of this crisis will be long-lived, as will the debates over its causes. We are facing the greatest challenge in a generation. Columbia Business School can take pride in its engagement in meeting this challenge in the classroom, in scholarly exchanges, and on the national stage.

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