The current fashion among business schools for teaching students the softer skills of management is not for Luis Garicano. Indeed, he questions whether softer skills can be taught at all. What does excite him is rigorous economic analysis.
Not that Prof Garicano comes across as some traditional fusty economics professor. Exactly the opposite, in fact: a Spaniard with a gregarious nature, Prof Garicano is one of a new breed of young economists who is bringing a technical discipline to life for the business community.
