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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