• Elgar Companion to Transaction Cost Economics

    Updated: 2009-09-30 17:41:25
    | Peter Klein | Mike Sykuta and I are editing a volume for the Elgar Companion series, The Elgar Companion to Transaction Cost Economics. The volume is currently in production with an expected publication date in mid-2010. We’ve created a page here on O&M with more information, including a table of contents and some sample chapter [...]

  • The Most Interesting Scholar in the World

    Updated: 2009-09-29 01:20:37
    | Peter Klein | With apologies to Dos Equis: His work would pass peer review . . . if he had peers. Students take his classes, just because they find them interesting. His main intellectual predecessor . . . is himself. His Erdős number is negative. He once rejected one of his own articles, just to see how it felt. He [...]

  • Nerd Rap

    Updated: 2009-09-26 23:32:48
    | Peter Klein| Weird Al’s version — already deconstructed by our friends at orgtheory.net — has style, but the CERN Rap has substance. As do these econ vids. Posted in - Klein -, Ephemera

  • Page and Reference Counts: AER versus AJS

    Updated: 2009-09-24 17:42:46
    | Peter Klein | Thanks to Teppo for linking to these interesting graphs. Since 1960, the page count and reference list of the average American Journal of Sociology article have risen dramatically, while those for the American Economic Review have remained about the same. I’d be curious to see these figures for the Academy of Management [...]

  • John Gray on the Greenspan-Bernanke Economy

    Updated: 2009-09-24 14:47:39
    | Peter Klein | From Gray’s April 2009 NYRB review of Margaret Atwood’s Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth: Concepts of debt figure centrally in Western religion, while the notion that debt is something to be avoided, or incurred with caution, has long been important in Western capitalism. Without institutions facilitating borrowing, capitalism would not [...]

  • Uncle Miltie on Economic Communication

    Updated: 2009-09-23 14:43:44
    | Peter Klein | No, not Milton Friedman, but John Milton. See “Areopagitica: Milton’s Influence on Classical and Modern Political and Economic Thought” by Isaac M. Morehouse in the excellent new online journal Libertarian Papers. Says Morehouse: Milton’s work has something to teach economists not only in its content but in its style and strategy. Milton did [...]

  • Another Economist Gets a Genius Award

    Updated: 2009-09-22 15:05:16
    | Peter Klein | This year it’s Esther Duflo, leader in the experimental approach to poverty reduction. She joins past economist-MacArthur fellows Matt Rabin, Avner Greif, Kevin Murphy, Nancy Folbre, Michael Kremer, and (way back in 1983, Alice Rivlin). Posted in - Klein -, People

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