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Old 12-05-2005, 10:36 PM
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Default Need to pick an economist - help!

I'm in a class where I can choose an economist to speak about and I want to make it interesting. A couple of people in my class have already done Steve Levitt and his book "Freakanomics." I wanted to do Tim Harford and his book "The Undercover Economist" but it's not here at the library.

I know there are some economics enthusiasts in OOT... please help
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Old 12-05-2005, 10:41 PM
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Friedman and Keynes are safe bets.
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Old 12-05-2005, 10:41 PM
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J. K. Galbraith

make sure to refer to his interview with Ali G often
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Old 12-05-2005, 10:48 PM
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Paul Krugman is a topical choice w/ buttloads of available material.
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Old 12-05-2005, 10:50 PM
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J. K. Galbraith

make sure to refer to his interview with Ali G often

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Shucks. The course name is "Galbraith, Friedman, and other economists" and right now we're on other economists.. I will look into Krugman. Thanks for the help so far.
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Old 12-05-2005, 11:01 PM
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Krugman is a good contemporary choice.

You could do Myron Scholes/Fischer Black/Robert Merton. They are responsible for the Options Pricing Model (used to price financial instruments, primarily options). Merton and Scholes won the 97 Nobel in Economics for this. However, they were also a part of Long Term Capital Management, a spectacular failure of a hedge fund. Very interesting story.
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Old 12-05-2005, 11:08 PM
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Even though he was not an economist by trade John Nash would be interesting to talk about. If you wanted to read a an econ book and talk about the author a bit my favorite econ prof had a book come out last spring in the same vain as Freakonomics (Harold Winter, Trade-Offs : An Introduction to Economic Reasoning and Social Issues).
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Old 12-06-2005, 01:05 AM
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Would Adam Smith work or is he too philospohical?
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Old 12-06-2005, 01:24 AM
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Malthus is good if you want to go old school.
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F.A Hayek
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