Gene Epstein, writing for Barron’s in the August 3, 1998, issue, suggests Rothbard’s monumental work on the history of economic thought. You can purchase these books through our on-line catalog. Epstein says, in part: “Another of my favorite intellectual feasts is the two-volume work by Murray N. Rothbard on the history of economic thought -- the
Barron’s October 19, 1998 Oh, Those Assumptions! An engineer, a chemist and an economist are marooned on an island ... . Maybe you’ve heard that classic joke, maybe you haven’t. But either way, it’s worth reviewing, since it bears direct relevance to the work of the 64-year-old Indian economist Amartya Sen, formerly of Harvard, currently at
Gene Epstein of Barron’s is one of the outstanding economic journalists of our time, and he also deeply influence by Misesian theory. Here are excerpts from his November 23, 1998, column on economics texts: Wrong Lessons The trouble with economics textbooks By Gene Epstein Now I know why it’s called the Dismal Science. I just spent a few days at a
Austrian business cycle theory has become the subject of a raucous debate. It began with an article by Austrian journalist Gene Epstein , writing in Barron’s about the work of Keynesian Paul Krugman of MIT. Krugman blasted back in the pages of Slate with a hit on the Austrians that fails to fully understand the theory. Excerpts follow: * * * * *
From Gene Epstein of Barron’s Re: Paul Krugman’s piece, “The Hangover Theory”: I’m undoubtedly the unnamed journalist he mentions in his lead, since my recent article about him did take him to task for ignoring the Austrian theory of business cycles. Accordingy, I’d like to correct his arguments and even a few of his facts. Krugman is probably
Barron’s December 14, 1998 “A few weeks ago,” began a recent article by MIT economist Paul Krugman in the online magazine Slate , “a journalist devoted a substantial part of a profile of yours truly to my failure to pay due attention to the ‘Austrian theory’ of the business cycle -- a theory that I regard as being about as worthy of serious study
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