any suggestions about chapter writers?

Robert Leeson



On Sat, August 6, 2011 20:29, Robert Leeson wrote:
> In his Nobel Banquet speech Hayek stated that he would have "decidedly
> advised against" the establishment of a Prize for economists because it
> "would tend to accentuate the swings of scientific fashion ... the Nobel
> Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man
> ought to possess ... the influence of the economist that mainly matters
> is an influence over laymen: politicians, journalists, civil servants and
> the public generally ... I am therefore almost inclined to suggest that
> you require from your laureates an oath of humility, a sort of
> hippocratic oath, never to exceed in public pronouncements the limits of
> their competence."
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> The 'insights' behind the Prize often become deified. Is there sufficient
> interest to warrant a volume on the extra-scientific clout that Nobel
> laureates and their work carry: e.g.
>
> Leontief: economic planning
> various: deregulation of the financial sector
> Scholes: LTCM
> Coase Theorem: post-communist privatisation
>
>
> Robert Leeson
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> Vol 1: The Keynesian Tradition (2008) Palgrave Macmillan
> http://us.macmillan.com/thekeynesiantradition
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> Vol 2: The Anti-Keynesian Tradition (2008) Palgrave Macmillan
> http://us.macmillan.com/theantikeynesiantradition
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> Vol 3: American Power and Policy (2009) Palgrave Macmillan
> http://us.macmillan.com/americanpowerandpolicy
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> Vol 4: Hayek and Behavioural Economics (2012)
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> Vol 5: Hayek: Biographical Studies (2012)
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> Vol 6: ?Nobel Prizes for Economic Science: Intended and Unintended Consequences?
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