The Say Something Nice about Other Economist Thread

[pcgame]

milton friemdman said he agreed with austrian economists, but he wanted to instead work within the system

 

[randomname]

Here's Nassim Taleb, Marc Faber and Hugh Hendry:

[video=vimeo;19820749]http://vimeo.com/19820749[/video]

And here's Kyle Bass:



All insanely smart, successful contrarian investors and I am sure all of them would be a riot to party with.

Taleb already said he liked Paul, and the other 3 I suspect are sympathetic as well

 

[randomname]

On Kyle Bass:

We hopped into his Hummer, decorated with bumper stickers (God Bless Our Troops, Especially Our Snipers) and customized to maximize the amount of fun its owner could have in it: for instance, he could press a button and, James Bond–like, coat the road behind him in giant tacks. We roared out into the Texas hill country, where, with the fortune he’d made off the subprime crisis, Kyle Bass had purchased what amounted to a fort: a forty-thousand-square-foot ranch house on thousands of acres in the middle of nowhere, with its own water supply, and an arsenal of automatic weapons and sniper rifles and small explosives to equip a battalion. That night we tore around his property in the back of his U.S. Army jeep, firing the very latest-issue U.S. Army sniper rifles, equipped with infrared scopes, at the beavers that he felt were a menace to his waterways. “There are these explosives you can buy on the Internet,” he said, as we bounded over the yellow hills. “It’s a molecular reaction. FedEx will deliver hundreds of pounds of these things.” The few beavers that survived the initial night rifle assault would wake up to watch their dams being more or less vaporized.

“It doesn’t exactly sound like a fair fight,” I said.

“Beavers are rodents,” he said.

 

[heavenlyboy34]

ummm...Ben Stein has a nice tie. (okay, he's technically not an economist, but people seem to take what he says about the economy very seriously) ETA: also have to give credit to all the Salamaca School economists.

 

[randomname]

Also solid:

Reggie Middleton
David Rosenberg
Jeremy Grantham
James Rickards
Paul Kedrosky

 

[AlexMerced]

Here's Nassim Taleb, Marc Faber and Hugh Hendry:

[video=vimeo;19820749]http://vimeo.com/19820749[/video]

And here's Kyle Bass:



All insanely smart, successful contrarian investors and I am sure all of them would be a riot to party with.

Taleb already said he liked Paul, and the other 3 I suspect are sympathetic as well

Marc Faber I'm sure is a Austrian fan as I sw him speak at an NYC mises circle, he actually bumped into me while watching Lew Rockwell

Nassim Taleb is awesome, his perspective has heavily informed my point of view

the others I'm not so knowledgeable about

 

[mojobo]

Not sure how some of these people would be classified but Ronald Coase, Jean-Baptise Say, and John Forbes Nash all did amazing work. Nash was more a mathematician than an economist so I don't think you could put him into any school of thought, but game theory is huge in microeconomics. Coase Theorem and Say's Law are probably the two most logistical theories in economics I studied while I was in college.

 

[AlexMerced]

Not sure how some of these people would be classified but Ronald Coase, Jean-Baptise Say, and John Forbes Nash all did amazing work. Nash was more a mathematician than an economist so I don't think you could put him into any school of thought, but game theory is huge in microeconomics. Coase Theorem and Say's Law are probably the two most logistical theories in economics I studied while I was in college.

Say and Coase are pretty sweet, not so familiar with Nash.