Talk:List of economists

Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics

There is no such thing as a Nobel Prize in Economics. Nobel never instituted a prize for economics, nor would he. Economists have free-rided the event to enhance their profession. The Bank of Sweden Prize for Economics was instituted with public money, tipical, and they forced their hand to be given at the same date. The marketing ploy is in the "In Memory of Alfred Nobel", which belies a laugh. Not even the most liberal economist would honor a monopolist business man, warmonger, inventor of Dynamite, suplier of the military. Only wikipedia can tell the truth. Britanica hires economists to write about the Nobel Prize in Economics and spread the small lie around.

Categorisation

I think it would be useful to categorise the economists by the school of thought that they belong to. Do such things exist in economics, or do all economists think alike? :-) Or would they be better categorised by political outlook? I think dates of birth and death would be helpful too. I may come back and add the dates myself. Mr. Jones 22:21, 19 May 2004 (UTC)

It would occur difficult to categorize the economists in a general list by school of thought, many school of thoughts are grouped geographical like the Austrian, Chicago, Stockholm school. It would seem also that those economists would have the same opinion about different aspects but that's however not always true. They were very often discussing among each other about different subjects. Also many of the economists wouldn't agree to be categorized like that. And different sources could mention some differences. It would some therefore a bit POV to categorize it this way. It would be better to refer to the specific page of the different school of thougths. --Eigenwijze mustang 16:00, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Spurious names?

It seems that list is growing ever faster. It has outgrown its description as a list of "well known" economists, and I guess that's fair enough, but I'm particularly skeptical about the value of adding names too obscure to have their own wikipedia pages by now. I'll list them here in the hope that someone will find the motivation to check them out and add a note of justification (or otherwise).

• Paul Baran
• Edward Chamberlain
• Colin Clark
• Trygvie Haavelmo
  • I remeber his name from university, he is the inventor of the Haavelmo theorem 82.82.131.134 01:48, 16 Nov 2003 (UTC)
• Robert Haveman
• Ernst Heckscher
• John R. Hicks
• Mikhail Kantarovich
• Tjalling C. Koopmans
• Harvey Liebenstien
• Edward Luttwak
  • Luttwak is an important US author, he wrote books about the globalization 82.82.131.134 01:48, 16 Nov 2003 (UTC)
• N. Gregory Mankiw
  • Mankiw is an important US economist and bestseller author 82.82.131.134 01:48, 16 Nov 2003 (UTC)
• Gunnar Myrdal
• Lionel Robbins
• Joan Robinson
• Bert Rürup
  • Rürup is an important German economist, an important reform last year got his name. 82.82.131.134 01:48, 16 Nov 2003 (UTC)
• Nassau William Senior
• Findlay Shirras
• Paul Sweezy
• Michael Todaro
• Jacob Viner
• Knut Wicksell
  • Important Swedish economist: http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/wicksellbio.html

I think most of these economists are reasonably well known (my definition of reasonably well known is that I have at least heard of them!) - so I'm happy with leaving them on the list. I agree however that there is not much point in adding names to the list until we have articles about them. Enchanter

I have books on my shelves by most of these people. I say leave them in. This is a list of economists, not a list of Wikipedia articles on economists. If you look at list of business theorists, we have articles on only a fraction of them. mydogategodshat 20:10, 15 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Well that's OK then, I guess I should have trusted that some real economists were watching over this page. Pm67nz 01:39, 16 Nov 2003 (UTC)