Irwin Collier - How Economists Used to Be Made

Comments

Post new comment

Your name: *

E-mail: *

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.

Homepage:

Comment: *

Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
Allowed HTML tags: <a> <blockquote> <br> <cite> <code> <dd> <div> <dl> <dt> <em> <h2> <h3> <h4> <img> <li> <ol> <p> <span> <strong> <sub> <sup> <table> <tbody> <td> <tr> <ul>
Allowed Style properties: display, float, height, margin, margin-bottom, margin-left, margin-right, margin-top, width
You may insert videos using embed codes like these:
- [video_large:KoqLu5CKx-o]
- [popupvideo_mini:KoqLu5CKx-o right]
- [lightboxvideo_mini:KoqLu5CKx-o]
- [text_popupvideo:KoqLu5CKx-o nostart noicon|Click here to open the video.]
- [text_lightboxvideo:KoqLu5CKx-o|Open this video in a lightbox.]
To learn more, please click on the "More information..." link below.

More information about formatting options

About this interview

Economists aren't born, they're made. Irwin Collier digs into archives to find out how Paul Samuelson and his generation were made. What did they learn, and how did they learn it? While today's graduate schools focus on quantitative methods, Collier says that a background in philosophy, politics, and history is essential to the posing of interesting questions. Without such background, he says, a researcher may be likened to a greyhound who cannot tell the difference between a fake bunny rabbit and a genuine hare. Irwin Collier uncovers the seeds of old economic thinking.

About Irwin Collier

Irwin Collier is Professor of Economics at the Freie Universität Berlin and leads the economics section of the John-F.-Kennedy Institute for North American Studies. Besides the history of economics, his research interests include the theory of economic measurement and the comparative analysis of economic systems. Full profile

30 Ways to Be an Economist

INET grantees talk about how they do their work, and how they came to be doing it.

	Philip Mirowski - Why Is There a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics?
	Gerald Epstein - Banks: How Big Is too Big?
	Katharina Pistor - What Finance (and Economics) Can Learn from Law