This is a great post over at Taking Hayek Seriously:
Larry Elliott, economics editor of the Guardian, takes a look at the economics profession and sees a professoriate detached from reality and incapable of fielding an “Fantasy Football” team of living All-Stars to fill out a modern “TEAM KEYNES” or contemporary “TEAM HAYEK”. You’ll find a bit of Elliott’s case quoted below. But I’m not so sure Elliott is right, as least in the instance of Hayek, even by Elliot’s own criteria. What Elliott is looking for are top notch modern day Hayekian or free market economists keenly interesting in explaining how the world actually works, with a healthy skepticism toward mathematical models or formalism for its own sake. Here are my own top ten draft picks for “TEAM HAYEK”. You can add your own in the comments.
No. 1 Draft Pick: DOUGLASS NORTH
No. 2 Draft Pick: ROBERT HIGGS
No. 3 Draft Pick: ISRAEL KIRZNER
No. 4 Draft Pick: VERNON SMITH
No. 5 Draft Pick: ROGER GARRISON
No. 6 Draft Pick: PETER BOETTKE
No. 7 Draft Pick: LAWRENCE WHITE
No. 8 Draft Pick: JAMES BUCHANAN
No. 9 Draft Pick: GEORGE SELGIN
No. 10 Draft Pick: HERNANDO DE SOTO
Showing posts with label Vernon Smith. Show all posts
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Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Vernon Smith's autobiography
It's called Discovery -- A Memoir and I enjoyed it very much. If you, like me, wish that more books were just a bit wilder, weirder (I mean that in the good sense), and real, you will like this one. Here's one brief bit:
...I will grow up to be a loner, protecting myself from distractions, but thereby projecting an image of aloofness that was never part of what I felt inside.
It's a hard book to summarize.
If you think you might be interested, you probably are, One Amazon reviewer writes:
'Discovery' is an unfiltered, entertaining read. There is no spin, no self-serving revisionism here. A most original and influential economist tells the reader what happened, what he thought, and how he thinks.
http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2009/05/vernon-smiths-autobiography.html
...I will grow up to be a loner, protecting myself from distractions, but thereby projecting an image of aloofness that was never part of what I felt inside.
It's a hard book to summarize.
If you think you might be interested, you probably are, One Amazon reviewer writes:
'Discovery' is an unfiltered, entertaining read. There is no spin, no self-serving revisionism here. A most original and influential economist tells the reader what happened, what he thought, and how he thinks.
http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2009/05/vernon-smiths-autobiography.html
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