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15 comments to "6 Economists Everyone Should Know."
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XuYu
April 3rd, 2007 at
12:33 am
Adam Smith put his invisible hand down my pants!
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Currywurst
April 3rd, 2007 at
4:43 am
You should have mentioned the rather infamous Friedman – Pinochet-link…
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Speedmaster
April 3rd, 2007 at
7:34 am
I’d add Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell, Von Mises, and Hayek to that list.
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Terry Ortiz
April 3rd, 2007 at
8:57 am
I second the Friedrich Hayek.
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Blake Riley
April 3rd, 2007 at
9:21 am
While I like Speedmaster’s suggestions, I think Richard Cantillon most deserves a place on the list. He arguably founded economics 40 years before Adam Smith with his Essai sur la Nature du Commerce(Smith even quotes his treatise in the Wealth of Nations). Cantillon made millions working as an advisor for the French government and speculating on the Mississippi Company. He is also the only well-known economist to be murdered. His disgruntled cook organized 5 other servants to kill and rob him, and then lit his London mansion on fire.
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Becki
April 3rd, 2007 at
9:49 am
Rather than a Friedman - Pinochet link, associating him with the dictator’s crack down on Allende and the communists, maybe you should instead look at Chile’s booming economy, after it adopted free markets. Free markets eventually led to freedom in all other aspects of like in Chile, including full democracy.
Friedman was a genius, and one of the intellectual giants of the 20th century. His “Free To Choose” series streams for free at The Idea Channel:
http://www.ideachannel.tv/
and you can find it on bit torrents at higher quality very easily.This PBS interview is a good place to start learning about him:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/shared/minitext/int_miltonfr iedman.htmlThis excerpt illustrates the real Friedman - Pinochet link:
INTERVIEWER: So you envisaged, therefore, that the free markets ultimately would undermine Pinochet?
MILTON FRIEDMAN: Oh, absolutely. The emphasis of that talk was that free markets would undermine political centralization and political control. And incidentally, I should say that I was not in Chile as a guest of the government. I was in Chile as the guest of a private organization.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/shared/minitext/int_miltonfr iedman.html#10
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sam
April 3rd, 2007 at
10:35 am
what’s with all the advertisements between posts? LAAAAME!
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Ali
April 3rd, 2007 at
11:57 am
Oh man. I got flashbacks from Economics class…I hated it all.
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Alex
April 3rd, 2007 at
1:12 pm
Sam, the ads help defray the cost of bandwidth (Neato gobbles ‘em up like candy).
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sam
April 3rd, 2007 at
4:13 pm
it’s cool alex, i’d do the same thing!
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donna
April 3rd, 2007 at
4:23 pm
New book on Schumpeter discussed here:
http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2007/04/david_warsh_i n_.html#comment-65292104
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Craig
April 3rd, 2007 at
8:45 pm
What, no Pareto (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilfredo_Pareto)?
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muerzin
April 4th, 2007 at
7:33 am
and where is E.F. Schumaker? if there’s one thing that’s going to save our rinds it’s de-centralising surely??
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Andy Horning
April 28th, 2007 at
11:27 am
Adam Smith really wasn’t “all that.” He didn’t contribute anything significant other than a few phrases, that because they’re in English, have made him popular here. The French economists Say and Bastiat were even better econ. popularists.
But Speedmaster was right in that the list is half-begun without von Mises, Hayek, Rothbard et al.
After all, the other economists are charlatans. The Austrian School is correct. -
Joost
May 5th, 2007 at
6:01 am
Surely Marx should be on that list
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