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My choice: David Friedman’s class on “Legal Systems Very Different From Ours.” Other suggestions?
My choice: David Friedman’s class on “Legal Systems Very Different From Ours.” Other suggestions?
Apr 16 2009
The more I think about Robin's position on efficiency, the more it puzzles me. In his talk, he heavily emphasized economists' need to build an iron-clad reputation for "neutrality" in order to persuade a world full of non-economists who distrust us. If we preach and practice "efficiency always," people will...
Apr 16 2009
I'm pleased to see that Scott Sumner's not just a cool macroeconomist; he also moonlights as an economic philosopher. Here's a challenge Sumner poses to me inspired by my debate with Robin: Assume that imports of Barbie dolls will eliminate 1000 jobs in South Carolina. Each job loss will have a devastating ...
Apr 15 2009
My choice: David Friedman's class on "Legal Systems Very Different From Ours." Other suggestions?
READER COMMENTS
liberty
Apr 15 2009 at 9:48pm
wow… i would not have expected to agree with you but I must say that I can hardly imagine a course i’d rather take… i feel so uncreative for just agreeing; but comparative legal and economic systems are the best way to teach economics, and that one looks excellent, and would be taught by a very well read and knowledgeable professor.
That would be my top choice too, I think.
Steve
Apr 15 2009 at 10:00pm
something with Bryan Caplan
HispanicPundit
Apr 15 2009 at 10:02pm
I’d probably pick a course by you, professor Caplan.
From your blog posts and the links youve posted to your notes, your class would probably be very interesting. Preferably a class with a mix of economics and race – topics like discrimination (statistical too), mobility, and culture. Interesting indeed!
RL
Apr 15 2009 at 10:03pm
Sadly, a tough question for non-academics to answer, simply because we don’t know what courses are offered. Perhaps you’d like to give us a multiple choice of 20 or so interesting econ courses/teachers.
Zac
Apr 15 2009 at 10:18pm
Introduction to Empirical Research with Steve Levitt.
But I only choose that because I’ve already taken my top choice.
John Singleton
Apr 15 2009 at 11:49pm
Hands down, anything Adam Smith ever taught
Runner up: 301 Price Theory from Friedman.
Snark
Apr 16 2009 at 12:03am
As a fly on the wall…A Short Course in Thinking About Thinking with Daniel Kahneman. What a round table!
Matt C
Apr 16 2009 at 12:34am
I have to me-too the Friedman legal systems course.
Mike Hammock
Apr 16 2009 at 12:45am
I’ve read so much of what Friedman has to say on alternative legal systems that I think marginal value of a course would probably be low.
I would much rather take a course from Arnold Kling on how to fix modern macroeconomics. I don’t like macro, and I don’t understand macro very well, but I think such a course would be more enlightening than just about any other class I could take.
RL
Apr 16 2009 at 1:40am
Well, if it’s not going to be multiple choice, I’d have to say a macroecon course from Jeff Hummel.
genghis
Apr 16 2009 at 2:33am
Armen Alchian was a fantastic teacher.
GE with Mas-colell.
sean
Apr 16 2009 at 4:23am
the economics of Camille Paglia
David R. Henderson
Apr 16 2009 at 10:42am
Jeff Hummel’s monetary theory class.
Ian Dunois
Apr 16 2009 at 11:00am
Until he retired this year, I wanted to take Tullock’s class.
If I had to choose it would be:
Walter Williams’ Econ 811 Micro class
http://economics.gmu.edu/wew/syllabi/811Fall08.htm
Peter Boettke’s Austrian Theory of the Market Process I and II
http://economics.gmu.edu/pboettke/coursesfall08.htm
Student @ NCSU
Apr 16 2009 at 12:28pm
I would take “Economics in the Bloomsbury Group” at Duke.
http://www.econ.duke.edu/CHOPE/Web%20Page/195-fall2008syllabus.pdf
I don’t take it, of course, because they tell me that “a mathematical introduction to probability theory” would look better on a transcript.
Pablo Abitbol
Apr 16 2009 at 12:35pm
Public and Environmental Affairs – Workshop in Public Policy, Elinor Ostrom
Ian Dunois
Apr 16 2009 at 1:08pm
I take it back.
I agree with Steven Horwitz on the Austrian Economists blog.
Anything by McCloskey
EclectEcon
Apr 16 2009 at 7:40pm
1. Macroeconomics from Arnold Kling.
2. Lunch-table economics at GMU.
Jayson Virissimo
Apr 16 2009 at 8:33pm
Anything by Steven Levitt or David Friedman.
Larry Peoples, Sr.
Apr 17 2009 at 8:02am
Hayek vs. Obama in a no-holds-barred cage match!!
Jacob Oost
Apr 18 2009 at 3:28am
Obama would be in traction after that.
And my preferred course would be “The Economics of Star Trek: From the Rules of Acquisition to Klingon House Structure.”
David Friedman
Apr 21 2009 at 2:53am
I’m afraid I can’t offer a distance version of my seminar, but interested students will find recordings of most of the classes in the two courses I’ve been teaching this spring on my web page.
Economic Analysis of Law:
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Course_Pages/L_and_E_LS_09/Law_and_Econ_09.html
Analytic Methods for Lawyers:
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Course_Pages/analytical_methods_09/Analytical_Methods_2009.html
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