Another thing worth finding out, on top of the teach-student 
family tree of economists, would be an intellectual context, or 
training chart of economists.  E.g. a list of those economists 
who took a mathematics, rather than a social science, degree as an 
undergraduate, etc.  How many economists, and which ones, would 
join the list of Varian, Friedman, E. Roy Weintraub, etc. as among 
those with an undergraduate degree in mathematics, and not in a 
social science.  Another interesting list -- and family tree -- would 
be one charting childhood politics, and the politics of particular 
mentors.  E.g. charting red-diaper academics, or free-market converts 
of Frank Knight, etc. 
 
Greg Ransom 
Dept. of Philosophy 
UC-Riverside 
 
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