tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-351485522012-02-01T04:44:23.427-05:00benihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11626072601102410967noreply@blogger.comBlogger101100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35148552.post-44581714930687840532009-03-31T15:53:00.001-04:002009-03-31T15:53:02.317-04:00All erroneous ideas, all poisonous weeds, all ghosts and monsters, must be subjected to criticism; in no circumstance should they be allowed to spread unchecked. However, the criticism should be fully reasoned, analytical and convincing, and not rough, bureaucratic, metaphysical or dogmatic.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35148552-4458171493068784053?l=economicsbroadlywrit.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>benihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11626072601102410967noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35148552.post-12074607300440243432007-01-14T23:35:00.000-05:002007-01-14T23:47:38.669-05:00Interesting article about the annual January gathering of thousands of economists at the biggest economics conference in the world.<br /><br />I was a psychology major in college and loved all of the strange experiments involving humans in social situations. I was surprised when I studied economics in graduate school and I discovered that almost all economists' models made patently false assumptions about the nature of human interaction.<br /><br />Perhaps, the preference of the discipline for assumptions about humans that make us perfectly rational, maximizing egoists is about to undergo some changes. This is a critique from within the ruling schools of economics.<br /><br />I am hopeful that the discipline will change faster than Paul Samuelson's quip that economics tended to change only "one funeral at a time."<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35148552-1207460730044024343?l=economicsbroadlywrit.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charlie Rockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01012475381157260847noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35148552.post-1168608595547078652007-01-12T08:29:00.000-05:002007-01-12T08:29:55.556-05:00From Eric:<br /><a href="http://www.thomaspalley.com/?p=60">Thomas Palley » Blog Archive » The Knowledge Police in Economics</a><br /><br />btw, anything that's not private can be posted directly to this blog by all members (that's ALL the econ department @ Rollins). The easiest way is to use the google toolbar (free download) -- ask me for help :-)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35148552-116860859554707865?l=economicsbroadlywrit.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>benihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11626072601102410967noreply@blogger.com52tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35148552.post-1161959423790748092006-10-27T10:23:00.000-04:002006-10-27T10:32:09.100-04:00<table xmlns="http://purl.org/atom/ns#" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><embed flashvars="autoplay=true" id="VideoPlayback" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-2063667852598904740&hl=en" style="width: 400px; height: 326px;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"> </td></tr><tr></tr><tr><td>Almost enough to make you an Austrian eh?<br /> </td></tr></tbody></table><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35148552-116195942379074809?l=economicsbroadlywrit.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>benihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11626072601102410967noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35148552.post-1161181722151916532006-10-18T10:28:00.000-04:002006-10-18T10:28:42.173-04:00<a href="http://www.economist.com/surveys/displayStory.cfm?story_id=7877959">The new titans | Economist.com</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35148552-116118172215191653?l=economicsbroadlywrit.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>benihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11626072601102410967noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35148552.post-1159647608243827412006-09-30T16:19:00.000-04:002006-09-30T16:20:08.250-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3757/3905/1600/econpic.png"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3757/3905/320/econpic.png" alt="" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35148552-115964760824382741?l=economicsbroadlywrit.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>benihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11626072601102410967noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35148552.post-1159645545900040792006-09-30T15:43:00.000-04:002006-09-30T15:46:55.663-04:00Please check it out (there are a few errors i've found at home but need to get into the office to fix).<br />I need Fjorentina &amp; Phil to give me the missing info (see the faculty link).<br />CIAO<br /><br />note: the title above is the link<br />the url is http://www.rollins.edu/economics/<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35148552-115964554590004079?l=economicsbroadlywrit.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>benihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11626072601102410967noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35148552.post-1159642141723700522006-09-30T14:49:00.000-04:002006-09-30T14:49:01.736-04:00<a href="http://www.economist.com/agenda/displaystory.cfm?story_id=7987622">Lula's second chance | Economist.com</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35148552-115964214172370052?l=economicsbroadlywrit.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>benihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11626072601102410967noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35148552.post-1159408465598946192006-09-27T21:54:00.000-04:002006-09-27T21:54:25.600-04:00<a href="http://web.rollins.edu/%7Ebbalak/">Benjamin Balak homePage</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35148552-115940846559894619?l=economicsbroadlywrit.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>benihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11626072601102410967noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35148552.post-1159407401844118132006-09-27T21:31:00.000-04:002006-09-30T15:42:56.296-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://web.rollins.edu/%7Ebbalak/images/the-treachery-of-images.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://web.rollins.edu/%7Ebbalak/images/the-treachery-of-images.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />translation from French:<br /><br />"This is not a pipe"<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35148552-115940740184411813?l=economicsbroadlywrit.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>benihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11626072601102410967noreply@blogger.com20