Economie voor in bed, op het toilet, of in bad door Arjo Klamer

In Economie voor in bed, op het toilet of in bad passeren vele economische feiten op toegankelijke wijze de revue, zodat je je kennis van de economie kunt opfrissen, waar en wanneer je maar wilt! Wat is geld eigenlijk? Geldt voor de markt en de overheid dezelfde logica? Hoe zit ’t met vraag en aanbod, [...]

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The Economic Conversation, Klamer’s 1984 hit, is a perennial favorite.

David Henderson on EconLog, 6 November 2011: “Tom Sargent on How the Vietnam War Made Him Skeptical of Government” writes: “Thomas Sargent … became, in his words, “more conservative,” because of the Vietnam war. Here’s an excerpt from a July 1982 interview with Arjo Klamer: ‘Klamer: Did you go to Vietnam? Sargent: I went through [...]

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In Conversations with Economists (1984), an Arjo Klamer-Thomas Sargent-Chris Sims connection — with hints of the future.

Klamer’s 1984 Conversations with Economists included an interview with Thomas Sargent, who had not yet published with Christoper Sims: Lucas and his occasional collaborator Thomas Sargent (of the University of Minnesota) argue that people act as if they’re using all available information in trying to anticipate the future, including even the information built into quite [...]

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The Mises Institute borrowing from Conversations with Economists

“Among the best ways to understand a scholar’s thought is through a lengthy interview. One of the most popular books among students several years ago was Conversations with Economists by Arjo Klamer.” This was posted some time ago (1997) in the Mises Memo in reference to a book published in 1984. Time to revisit the [...]

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“Art has value that goes way beyond the economy or testing kids” — an article that recommends Klamer’s The Value of Culture

SOURCE: CultureMap.com, Nancy Wozny, 24 Dec. 2010.

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One of Klamer’s important books (The Consequences of Economic Rhetoric, co-edited with McCloskey and Solow) is now online.

The Consequences of Economic Rhetoric, edited by Arjo Klamer, D. N. McCloskey, and Robert M. Solow (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988) is available in full text.

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Klamer’s audio books listed on the Audio Book Store

See Arjo Klamer’s Audio Books – Browse the collection of Arjo Klamer’s books in audio format.

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The Journal of Economic Issues commends Colander and Klamer’s Making of an Economist

In “Teaching the Principles of Economics: A Proposal for a Multi-Paradigmatic Approach,” Janet Knoedler and Daniel Underwood say: “Buttressing their point is Colander and Arjo Klamer’s excellent survey of graduate students in economics, who complained that they were disappointed with … [continues at Questia.com (subscription required)]. Journal article by Janet T. Knoedler, Daniel A. Underwood; [...]

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Arjo is among the “couple of notables” to comment on David Ruccio’s new book, Economic Representations: Academic and Everyday

View original post in Real World Economics Review, 15 February, 2010. Klamer’s comment: If it is agreed that standard economic representations do not do justice to the complexities of the new economy, how else could we represent an economy that is more about symbols and the production of meanings than about the production of goods [...]

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Klamer provides a quote for EJW’s issue of “Intellectual Hazard: A Liberal Selection of Quotations”

From Econ Journal Watch (6: 2, May 2009, p. 281) under the heading “Cynicism and Acquiescence” comes: Arjo Klamer (1990, 184) [The Making of an Economist]: ” ‘Of course this assumption is absurd,’ a well-known economist noted during a recent seminar, ‘but, hey, isn’t all we do absurd and utterly unrealistic?’ People laughed, and he [...]

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