P.LeBel The Dead Economists Society

The Dead Economists Society

How Their Writings

Have Shaped our World

A mini-course in four sessions

Phillip LeBel, Ph.D.

Emeritus Professor of Economics

Montclair State University

Montclair, New Jersey 07043

lebelp@mail.montclair.edu

Course Syllabus

A Gallery of Noted Economists

Thomas Aquinas 1225-1275	Jean Bodin 1530-1596	Thomas Mun 1571-1641	William Petty 1623-1687
Bernard Mandeville 1670-1733	François Quesnay 1694-1774	Daniel Bernoulli 1700-1782	Adam Smith 1723-1790
Thomas R. Malthus 1766-1834	David Ricardo 1772-1823	Auguste Comte 1798-1857	Antoine Augustin Cournot 1801-1877
John Stuart Mill 1806-1873	Karl Marx 1818-1883	Gustav Schmoller 1838-1937	Karl Menger 1840-1921
Alfred Marshall 1842-1924	Vilfredo Pareto 1848-1923	Eduard Bernstein 1850-1932	Thorstein Veblen 1857-1929
Louis Bachelier 1870-1946	Vladimir I. Lenin 1870-1924	Joseph A. Schumpeter 1883-1950	John Maynard Keynes 1883-1946
Harold Hotelling 1895-1973	Gunnar Myrdal 1898-1973	Friedrich Hayek 1899-1992	Oskar Morgenstern 1902-1977
Frank P. Ramsey 1903-1930	John Von Neumann 1903-1957	Ronald Coase 1910 - 2013	George Stigler 1911-1991
Milton Friedman 1912-2006	Anna J. Schwartz 1915-2012	Paul A. Samuelson 1915-2009	Herbert Simon 1916-2001
John Rawls 1921-2002	Kenneth J. Arrow 1921 -	Harvey Leibenstein 1922-1994	William Baumol 1922 -
Arnold Harberger 1924 -	Francis M. Bator 1925 -	Harry M. Markowitz 1927 -	Anthony Downs 1930 -
Daniel Kahneman 1934 -	Robert Nozick 1936 - 2002	Fischer Black 1938 - 1995	Myron Scholes 1941 -
William Nordhaus 1941 -	Joseph Stiglitz 1943 -	Robert C. Merton 1944-	Robert J. Shiller 1946 -
Paul Krugman 1953 -	Nassim Nicolas Taleb 1960 -	Thomas Piketty 1971 -

Course Session Materials

The Origins of Economics as a Social Science Discipline
The Context That Inspired The Writings of Key Economists
A Sampling of How Key Economists Shaped Public Policy
What Lessons do Dead Economists Hold for Our Understanding of the Future

Readings on Economic Ideas

References

Selected Files

01.	The Insitutional Structure of the Circular Flow
02.	The Harrod-Domar Growth Model
03.	Real Rates of Return to Bills Bonds and Stocks
04.	The Measurement of Risk
05.	Alternative Symmetric Distributions
06.	Growth Accounting in Developed Economies
07.	U.S. Legislative Landmarks
08.	Application Modules
09.	Income Distribution and Social Welfare
10.	How Economists Make Good and Bad Predictions
11.	Predicting the Unpredictable: Theory and Policy in the Presence of Asset Bubbles
12.	Perspectives on the Current Recession
13.	Asset Bubbles and Moral Hazard: Evidence from Japan

About the course instructor

P. LeBel - Academic Curriculum Vitae

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