Government economist by day, blogger by night Games he likes to play: How to define and measure the economy, innovation, national accounting, intellectual property, development economics and of course the history of economics. Favourite Toy: Archives and data Bed-time story: Robert Heilbrohner’s The Worldly Philosophers; Deirdre McCloskey’s Economical Writings Imaginary Friends: John Maynard Keynes, Daniel Defoe, Charles Davenant, Edward Misselden, Vincent de Gournay, Arthur Young and Simon Kuznets. If found, please return to London or www.mitrakahn.com where all his papers and vaccinations can be found. |
Benjamin Mitra-Kahn
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Asking questions about paradigms and INET
Dinner has already rolled around on what has been a quick day.
From 1000AD to 1970 the History of World Trade is Based on Fact, After 1970, Fiction?
Having just started Findlay and O’Rourke’s mammoth history of world trade in the second millenia, I have been struck by a strange incongruity
UK Budget Appeals to Adam Smith's Approach to Taxes... Sort of
Yesterday the Chancellor of the Exchequer (or UK ‘finance minister’) gave his annual budget speech where UK fiscal policy is set for the coming years.
How God, Adam Smith, and the invisible hand changes over time
So with a suitably provocative title I think we can declare 2012 open.