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abcd
03-03-2005, 02:54 PM
Who do you think is the top economist? Please leave your comments regarding your choice.

P.S. Forgot to add option Other
Martingale
03-03-2005, 02:59 PM
Adam Smith "Wealth of Nations".

he is the man, believe me, none of the Economists haven't contributed to the Economics as he did. from the contemporaries can be Keynes.
fratboyxxx
03-03-2005, 03:02 PM
Who do you think is the top economist? Please leave your comments regarding your choice.

P.S. Forgot to add option Other

islam karimov :lol:
fratboyxxx
03-03-2005, 03:04 PM
islam karimov :lol:
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abcd
03-03-2005, 03:05 PM
islam karimov :lol:
Seriously wanted to add this option but then assumed that we can deviate from main discussion.
Mona Lisa
03-03-2005, 03:07 PM
Schumpeter and his 'creative destruction' ROCKS!!! :) It's everywhere, you even get sick of it ....

But then again Keynesian school of thought is bedrock of contemporary economics

Sorry I can't choose
anatoliydaev
03-03-2005, 03:09 PM
Paul Samuelson. Launched the era of the mathematization of economics and more (http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/samuelson.htm) and once again (http://nobelprize.org/economics/laureates/1970/samuelson-bio.html)
An unconfirmed anecdote has it that at the end of Samuelson's dissertation defense, Schumpeter turned to Leontief and asked, "Well, Wassily, have we passed?"
http://nobelprize.org/economics/laureates/1970/samuelson.gif
abcd
03-03-2005, 03:15 PM
Schumpeter and his 'creative disruption' ROCKS!!! :) It's everywhere, you even get sick of it ....

But then again Keynesian school of thought is bedrock of economics

Sorry I can't choose

I could. XXI century will be Schumpeterian.

P.S. Creative destruction not creative disruption.
Mona Lisa
03-03-2005, 03:17 PM
I could. XXI century will be Schumpeterian.

P.S. Creative destruction not creative disruption.
opps sorry :P Thank you for correction

I see all Economics fans here :)
Guardian
03-03-2005, 03:17 PM
I like N Gregoriy Mankiw, as a perfect Economics Researcher and book writer, at least.
Martingale
03-03-2005, 03:19 PM
I like N Gregoriy Mankiw, as a perfect Economics Researcher and book writer, at least.

Mankiw's Macroeconomics is very well written and more understandable than any other books
Royal
03-03-2005, 06:09 PM
Eski Jova bozoridagi amakila, dunyodagi hamma ishdan va puldan habarlari bor.
kalkulyatorsiz etib beradi , sekundda qaysi davlatni puli qancha bolib qancha bovotganini .
WASP
03-03-2005, 06:15 PM
Adam Smith... invisible hand, the theory of the division of labor etc.
AL-Midwest
03-03-2005, 07:31 PM
I voted for Keynes

facinated by Keynesian economics thinking and school
n0xyl
03-03-2005, 09:52 PM
Joseph Stiglitz.
Samimiy
03-04-2005, 12:05 AM
I voted for Adam Smith, because he is considered the founder of economics. Btw, some say by the "invisible hand" he meant God.

anatoliydaev, another anecdote about Paul Samuelson. Before he became an economist, he was a phisycist. When he switched to economics, some physicists said that "the average IQs in both fields increased". Not a very flattering comment for economists, of course. :(
Samimiy
03-04-2005, 12:10 AM
I think John Nash should also have been in the poll. Although strictly speaking he is not an economist, his contributions to the field are huge. After Pareto efficiency, Nash equilibrium is probably the most common term you hear in economics today .
StU
03-04-2005, 04:30 AM
Адам Смит, который без всяких сложных формул и графиков
обяснил экономическую теорию
musoFR
03-04-2005, 07:53 AM
Eski Jova bozoridagi amakila, dunyodagi hamma ishdan va puldan habarlari bor.
kalkulyatorsiz etib beradi , sekundda qaysi davlatni puli qancha bolib qancha bovotganini .

Janob Royal togrti aytasiz. Spiskadagilardan bittasini ham kormaganman. Faqat kitoblarda oqigamman. Eski jovadagi boboylarni esa korgamman. Togri ular hammasini biladi.
adagio
03-04-2005, 10:32 AM
Keynes has very founded arguments!
of course , though we have witnessed a little disappearance of this team during 1970-1980 th, but, now none can contest this school, so keynes, new keynesians are again getting the ARENA.
Vive l'école keynesienne! :cool:
4twelve
03-06-2005, 02:20 PM
Keynes keynes keynes .....but i hate him:lol: :lol:
Prince
03-06-2005, 02:44 PM
Adam Smith - "founder" - Rocks
krokobazuka
03-06-2005, 03:31 PM
Horosho chto netu v etom spiske Prescotta, Sargenta i Lucas'a - etih gadov iz neo-classical school - have to study their stuff in my classes and literally hate it :)

Prescott has won the Nobel prize though - and will be on our campus soon with a lecture on reforming Social Suckurity

By the way try reading Hayek. also very good, concise and up to point

PS Marx rocks :)