Government economist by day, blogger by night Games he likes to play: How to define and measure the economy, innovation, national accounting, intellectual property, development economics and of course the history of economics. Favourite Toy: Archives and data Bed-time story: Robert Heilbrohner’s The Worldly Philosophers; Deirdre McCloskey’s Economical Writings Imaginary Friends: John Maynard Keynes, Daniel Defoe, Charles Davenant, Edward Misselden, Vincent de Gournay, Arthur Young and Simon Kuznets. If found, please return to London or www.mitrakahn.com where all his papers and vaccinations can be found. |
Benjamin Mitra-Kahn
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When the US last defaulted...
Two things seem to be taken for granted in the current debt-ceiling debate: 1. The parties will come to an agreement on the debt ceiling because 2. These United States have never defaulted and will not start now.
Disdain or paranoia for historians of economics?
The organizers of Duke’s Summer Institute on the history of economics were so worried that students might be embarrassed to ask their supervisors for a letter of recommendation, or that the supervisors would say it’s a waste of time to study history, so they took a last minute decision to cancel the need for a letter of recommendation.
Who’s the INETiest of them all?
There are a lot of universities represented here, but who are the most likely candidates for participation and who might one expect INET to be interested in?
Interview with Barry Eichengreen, any requests?
We have been talking and video interviewing people at the conference, and we’ve narrowed down a small list of questions which we try to build on and have so far talked to Kenneth Rogoff, Brad DeLong, Ha-Joon Chang, Stephen Ziliak, Philippe Aghion, Jean-Paul Fitoussi, Barry Eichengreen and tomorrow we start with James Galbraith.