Colleagues

Deirdre McCloskey Deirdre McCloskey

Deirdre McCloskey and Arjo Klamer have each had an interest in the rhetoric and conversation of economics since (at least) the early 1980's. Among their collaborative works is the 1988 publication of The Consequences of Economic Rhetoric with Bob Solow.

"Although many years ago now, I vividly remember meeting Donald (now Deirdre) McCloskey for the first time. As we drove from the airport to a conference site, I realized I had found a partner in conversation." (excerpted from Klamer's Speaking of Economics, Routledge, 2007.)

Jack Amariglio Jack Amariglio and Arjo Klamer are old friends from Arjo's days on the East Coast. "Mijn Amerikaanse vriend Jack Amariglio is een postmodernist in alles wat hij schrijft. Alleen bezwijkt zijn koffietafel onder een lading boeken over 'country-style living', een soort landelijke stijl van inrichten, en is hij in zijn persoonlijk leven zo traditioneel als wat. Hoe kan het ook anders. Ook postmodernisten willen ergens bijhoren." "The Lives of Cultural Goods" [PDF] is Arjo's contribution to the forthcoming The Sublime Economy", edited by Jack Amariglio et al.
Harry van Dalen Harry van Dalen

Dutch economist Hendrik P. (Harry) van Dalen and Arjo Klamer have collaborated since the mid-1990s. Their books include Telgen van Tinbergen (1996) and Het Verhaal van Geld (1998).

They have co-authored a number of articles including Econoom en de tucht van de aandachtseconomie, Is There Such a Thing Called Scientific Waste?, Attention and the Art of Scientific Publishing, Leidt concurrentie tot verspilling?, De Rotterdamse econoom: tussen wetenschap en handel, and Blood is Thicker than Water: Economists and the Tinbergen Legacy

Esther-Mirjam Sent « Esther-Mirjam Sent and Arjo Klamer share an interest in the art of publication. They co-authored "The Economics of Scientific Publication: Introduction" in Journal of Economic Methodology (vol. 9, no. 3, November 2002, pp. 265-273).


Ruth Towse
Ruth Towse, editor of A Handbook of Cultural Economics (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2003), included Klamer's [PDF] "Gift Economy" (pp. 241-247) and [PDF] "Value of Culture" (pp. 465-469).
Towse is a cultural economist at Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam.
David Colander and Arjo Klamer caused a stir in graduate schools with their publication of The Making of an Economist: Studies in the History, Method and Boundaries of Economics. Colander is an economic historian at Middlebury College who claims that "freakonomics" is becoming mainstream.