Recommended Works on the Economics Profession and on Being an Economist

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1 Recommended Works on the Economics Profession and on Being an Economist Anderson, Martin 1992, 'The Glass Bead Game', Chapter 4 of his Imposters in the Temple (New York: Simon & Schuster), pp Bauer, P. T 'Reflections on the State of Economics', Chapter 15 in his Equality, the Third World, and Economic Delusion (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press), pp Bauer, P.T 'Further Reflections on the State of Economics', Chapter 10 of his Reality and Rhetoric: Studies in the Economics of Development (Cambridge: Harvard University Press), pp Boettke, Peter J 'What Is Wrong with Neoclassical Economics (And What Is Still Wrong with Austrian Economics)', in Fred Foldvary ( ed. ), Beyond Neoclassical Economics (Aldershot, England: Edward Elgar). Boettke, Peter J 'Where Did Economics Go Wrong? Modern Economics as a Flight from Reality', Critical Review, 11 (1), pp Buchanan, James M What Should Economists Do? (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund). Cannan, Edwin 'The Need for Simpler Economics', Economic Journal, 43 (September), pp Coase, Ronald H 'Economists and Public Policy', in J. Fred Weston (ed.), Large Corporations in a Changing Society (New York: New York University Press) Reprinted in Coase's Essays on Economics and Economists (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994), pp , and in the Colander, David Why Aren't Economists As Important As Garbagemen? Essays on the State of Economics (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe). Colander, David and Reuven Brenner ( eds) Educating Economists (Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press). Graham, Frank D Social Goals and the Economic Institutions (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press). Selection (from pp. xv-xx) reprinted in the Harberger, Arnold C 'The Search for Relevance in Economics', 151

2 152 Recommended Works American Economic Review (Papers and Proceedings), May, Hayek, Friedrich A 'On Being an Economist', an address given to economics students at the London School of Economics in 1944, first published in The Trend of Economic Thinking: Essays on Political Economists and Economic History (vol. III of The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek), edited by W. W. Bartley and Stephen Kresge (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991), pp Reprinted in the Hutt, William H Economists and the Public (reprinted New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1990). Selection (from pp. 34-7, ) reprinted in the Hutt, William H Politically Impossible...? An Essay on the Supposed Electoral Obstacles Impeding the Translation of Economic Analysis into Policy, or, Why Politicians Do Not Take Economic Advice (London: Institute of Economic Affairs). Kirzner, Israel M 'Does Anyone Listen to Economists' (a review of George Stigler's Economist As Preacher and Other Essays), Inquiry, April, pp Reprinted with new title in the Klamer, Arjo Conversations with Economists (Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Allanheld). Klamer, Arjo and David Colander The Making of An Economist (Boulder, Col.: Westview Press). Knight, Frank H 'The Role of Principles in Economics and Politics' (Presidential address at the American Economics Association, 1950), American Economic Review, 41 (March) Reprinted in Knight's On the History and Method of Economics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), pp Leijonhufvud, Axel 'Life Among the Econ', Western Economic Journal, September, pp Machovec, Frank M Perfect Competition and the Transformation of Economics (New York: Routledge). Mayer, Thomas Truth Versus Precision in Economics (Aidershot, England: Edward Elgar). McCloskey, D. N The Rhetoric of Economics (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press). McCloskey, D. N The Writing of Economics (New York: Macmillian). McCloskey, D. N Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics (New York: Cambride University Press). McCloskey, D. N The Vices os Economists- The Virtues of the Bourgeoisie (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press). Philbrook, Clarence "'Realism" in Policy Espousal', American Economic Review, 43 (December), pp Reprinted in the Schelling, Thomas C 'What Do Economists Know?', The American Economist, 39 (Spring 1995), pp Reprinted in the

3 Recommended Works 153 Summers, Lawrence H 'The Scientific Illusion in Empirical Economics', Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 93(2), Tullock, Gordon 'How to Do Well While Doing Good!', an address delivered during the early 1970s at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Published in David C. Colander ( ed. ), Neoclassical Political Economy: The Analysis of Rent-Seeking and DUP Activities (Cambridge, Mass.: Ballinger, 1984), pp Reprinted in the Yeager, Leland B 'Austrian Economics, Neoclassicism, and the Market Test', Journal of Economic Perspectives 11, 4 (Fall),

4 Index of Names Bagehot, Walter, 137 Baster, AS.J., 32 (note 3) Bastiat, Fraderic, 3 Bauer, Peter T., 108-9, Booth, Wayne C., 10 Borcherding, Thomas, 90ff., 99 Boynton, Robert, 105 Burke, Edmund, 66 Cairnes, John, 61, 67 (note 7) Cannan, Edwin, vii, ix, 2, 3, 10, 38-40,41,63-5,66 Carens, Joseph, 114 Carey, Henry, 113 Coase, Ronald H., vii, 1-26 Colander, David, 1 Cournot, A, 57 Dicey, AV., 136 Dorosh, Gary W., 90ff., 99 Edgeworth, F.Y., 58 Fisher, Anthony, 103 (note 9) Friedman, Milton, xii, 9, 33, 94 Gordon, Lincoln, viii Graham, Frank D., vii-viii, 1-26 Hartwell, R.M., xiii, 110 Hayek, Friedrich A., viii-ix, 1-26 Hazlitt, Henry, 3 Hicks, J.R., 58 Hirshleifer, Jack, 93 Hoffer, Eric, Hull, Cordell, 90 Hutt, William H., ix, 1-26, 137, 147 Jevons, W. Stanley, 43, 67 (note 2) Kefauver, Senator Estes, 45-6 Kennedy, Senator Edward, 88 Keynes, J.M., 32 (note 1), 34, 134-5, 136, 148 (note 1) Kierkegaard, S0ren, 18 Kirzner, Israel M., ix-x, 1-26 Kitch, Edmund, 36 Klamer, Arjo, 1, 2 Knight, Frank, viii, 2, 3, 40-1 Kuhn, Thomas S., 11, 12 Lester, Richard, viii MacAvoy, Paul, 35 Mackintosh, Sir James, 137 Malthus, Robert Thomas, 137 Marshall, Alfred, 43, 58, 148 (note 8) Mayer, Thomas, 1 McCloskey, D. N., x, 1-26 Menger, Carl, 133 Mill, John Stuart, 31, 61, 65, 67 (note 7), 135 Miller, James, 87, 88 Mises, Ludwig von, viii, ix Nicholson, J. Shield, 57, 58, 63, 65 Olson, Mancur, 110 Peltzman, Sam, 47 Philbrook, Clarence, x-xi, 1-26 Pigou, A C., 43 Plant, Arnold, vii, ix Polanyi, Michael, 6 155

5 156 Index of Names Ricardo, David, 31, 65, 137 Robbins, Lionel, 64, 66, 68 (note 15) Robinson, Joan, 14, Schelling, Thomas C., xi-xii, 1-26 Schiller, Friedrich von, 143 Sidgwick, Henry, 65 Smith, Adam, xvi, 3, 7, 17, 31, 36-8, 43, 65, 66, 112, 113, 115, 137, 138 Smith, Llewellyn, 65 Stigler, George J., 4-5, 6, 11, 19, 42-7, 51; his book reviewed, Summers, Lawrence H., 1 Thurow, Lester, lllff. Tocqueville, Alexis de, 115 Tullock, Gordon, xii, 1-26 Veblen, Thorstein, 32 (note 2) Viner, Jacob, xviii Weiser, Friedrich von, viii Wildavsky, Aaron, 7

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