... .” HOPE 13 ( 2 ): 285 – 99 . Woolf L. 1916 . International Government . London : Fabian Society . “Perhaps I’m a Don Quixote but I’m Trying to Be a Paul Revere”: Irving Fisher as a Public Intellectual Robert W. Dimand An Economist and a Public Intellectual Irving...

...) economic material captured much of the energy and immediacy of contemporary economic forces. This essay focuses on the role that such popular publications played in defining these economists as public intellectuals. Writing against a backdrop of mass unemployment and industrial transformation, many British...

...Rob Roy McGregor; Warren Young In this essay, we focus on three district Federal Reserve Bank presidents who took on the role of public intellectual in the 1970s and early 1980s. They reflected their districts’ economic concerns, presenting them and their own views at the Federal Open Market...

... .” Newsweek , November 18 . www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2008/11/17/gaming-the-financial-system.html . Pinto Edward . 2009 . “ ACORN and the Housing Bubble .” Wall Street Journal , November 12 . Posner Richard . 2003 . Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline . Cambridge...

...Tiago Mata; Steven G. Medema The essays in this volume examine the economist as public intellectual. Rather than assessing the changing status of the public intellectual in culture or attempting to define the identity of the public intellectual, our approach is to study the public interventions...

... their first attempts, made independently from each other, to their joint venture on the Internet through The Becker-Posner Blog . In our description of their independent and then collaborative experiences, differences appear between Becker and Posner about how to be a public intellectual, but also...

...Gil Eyal; Moran Levy This essay argues that the term public intellectual is too narrow for historical research about the public influence of economists and economic expertise. We propose, instead, the concept of public interventions to inform a more comprehensive approach that broadens...

...Craufurd D. W. Goodwin This essay uses the writings of Thurman Arnold to demonstrate his contribution as an economic public intellectual, economist, public servant, and compares him to other economic public intellectuals such as Roger Fry, Aldo Leopold, and Walter Lippmann. Copyright © 2019 Duke...

...Peter Boettke; Liya Palagashvili Henry Hazlitt was a public intellectual who had unusual strength in both economic reasoning and articulation and played a central role in communicating the ideas of classical, or “orthodox,” economics to the general public. He occupied a unique position in the mid...

...Susan Howson It is hard to think of a more committed public intellectual in Britain in the twentieth century than Lionel Robbins—except, of course, John Maynard Keynes. For six decades Robbins engaged in public debate on economic policy issues in lectures and talks, contributions to newspapers...

...Romain Huret This essay analyzes the network of social experts who launched the War on Poverty in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations from 1963 to 1968. If they are often neglected in historical accounts, which are focused on public intellectuals and presidential advisers, these experts played...

... in the United States (Hülsmann 2007 : 794–95, 873). Hazlitt's talent for translating esoteric economic theory into accessible terms allowed him to reach a larger audience than contemporary academics. Moreover, his status as a public intellectual garnered respect from and access to prominent businessmen...

...Charles Camic This article considers the early intellectual career of Thorstein Veblen through the lens of his hitherto neglected 1895 English translation of System der Finanzwissenschaft (1889), an eight-hundred-page treatise on public finance by Gustav Cohn, a German historical economist of high...

... (Johnson, this vol- ume), appeared to be on similar intellectual wavelengths at the same time, their personal interaction began and ended in Charlottesville. For Musgrave’s part, his “epic”—as Tiebout later referred to it—The Theory of Public Finance finally appeared in print in 1959. In it, Mus...

... upon archival evidence from Keynes and Wells’s own contemporary exchanges, we bring to light a largely unnoticed intellectual dialogue between the two authors that took place from roughly 1926 to 1934 through their published works, letters, and public and private conversations. The context provided...

...Tony Aspromourgos This essay examines Keynes’s views on public debt, taking as its point of departure his 1943 confrontation with Abba Lerner on the issue. It also exhaustively considers the wider intellectual relationship between the two men, as well as Keynes’s other commentaries on public debt...

...Rosario Patalano In the 1750s, in the Italian states, the theme of monetary stability came to the center of public interest. In the Kingdom of Naples, particularly, the independence achieved under Charles of Bourbon stimulated many reform programs for the development and protection of foreign trade...

...Jocelyn Hickey Abstract Within the discipline of economics, as within all academic disciplines, scholars produce texts in which they examine, discuss, and sometimes invoke their intellectual predecessors. As historians of economic thought, we are faced with the task of evaluating the readings put...

... of intellectual give and take—where the actual thinking and discovery happened—Friedman was generous with his praise and credit. In the formal world of publication and peer review, Friedman defended his own interests. Ultimately, the book would do much to revive Friedman's flagging reputation in the field...

... an intellectual tradition that ran from Woodrow Wilson through Herbert Simon to the new work in “nonmarket decision making” by Buchanan and Tullock. The paper anchored what would become the Bloomington School of public choice. 11 Ostrom first solo-authored paper appeared in Public Choice in 1968...