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James M. Buchanan and Me : Reminiscing About a 50-Year Association

Wagner, Richard E. - 2014

This essay commemorates James M. Buchanan's life and work by reflecting on my 50 years of association with him, starting in 1963 when I entered graduate school at the University of Virginia and ending with his death in 2013. This essay does not try to add to the substantial secondary literature...

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Cultural Trends as Seen in Ngrams : Karl Polanyi with a Hayekian Twist

Klein, Daniel B. - 2013

In this very casual paper, I reproduce results from the Google Ngram Viewer. The main thrust is to show that around 1880 governmentalization of society and culture began to set in — a great transformation, as Karl Polanyi called it. But that great transformation came as a reaction to...

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Virtues, Layers, and Lenses in Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments

Klein, Daniel B. - 2015

These brief, casual remarks were delivered at an event to discuss Russell Roberts’s book How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life. I provide nine quotations from Adam Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments, each quotation stating a source of vice, disorder, and corruption in human life. Smith...

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Christianity → Liberalism : Siedentop Reading Group Notes

Klein, Daniel B. - 2020

The present 77 page document is my set of notes used in a five-part reading group on Larry Siedentop's great book Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism. The document contains a link to the set of videos online

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Economists, Crises and Cartoons

Levy, David M.; Peart, Sandra J. - 2010

Economists have occasionally noticed the appearance of economists in cartoons produced for public amusement during …

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Henry Hazlitt as an Intellectual Middleman of ‘Orthodox Economics’

Boettke, Peter J.; Palagashvili, Liya - 2012

attention of professional economists. In his editorial writings in The Nation, New York Times, and Newsweek as well as his best … commentary to the current issues of his day and was fundamental in popularizing the ideas of free market economists during the …

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William Beveridge's 'Mock Trial of the Economists : ' Experts and Liberalism

Levy, David M. - 2014

The 1933 “Mock Trial of the Economists” is occasionally noticed and then interpreted as popular discontent with … economists's “crime” of “conspiracy to spread mental fog” at evidenced by the dueling letters from the Oxbridge economists … (Keynes, Pigou, et al.) and the LSE economists (Hayek, Robbins et al.) From William Beveridge's archives we provide the …

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Gordon Tullock's Scholarly Legacy : Extracting It from Buchanan's Shadow

Wagner, Richard E. - 2017

Thinking was Gordon Tullock's primary interest in life. He let his thinking roam widely and creatively over his many fields of interest; moreover, Tullock is widely recognized for the robust and creative quality of this thought. He left a valuable legacy. All the same, I think the value of that...

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James Buchanan and George Stigler : Divergent Legacies from Frank Knight

Wagner, Richard E. - 2017

I have been asked to compare James Buchanan's body of work with that of George Stigler for a symposium on Stigler's contributions to economics. I run my exposition through Frank Knight, who exerted strong though different forms of influence over both Stigler and Buchanan. Stigler's oeuvre is...

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Henry Hazlitt as an Intellectual Middleman of 'Orthodox Economics'

Boettke, Peter J.; Palagashvili, Liya - 2013

Henry Hazlitt was a unique public intellectual, who strove to not only to enlighten the general public with his writings, speeches, and appearances on TV and radio, but sought to contribute to the specialized disciplines of economics and philosophy. The evidence supporting my conjecture that...

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