دانلود کتاب How to be Human*: *Though an Economist

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Front Cover ......Page 1
Title Page ......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Preface......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Some News That Will at Least Not Bore You......Page 12
It Helps to Be a Don if Yo u're Going to Be a Deirdre......Page 18
A Libertarian Abroad......Page 21
Love or Money......Page 23
Aunt Deirdre's Letter to a Graduate Student......Page 28
"Better than Plowing," Says Jim Buchanan......Page 33
The Economic Tourism of Armen Alchian......Page 39
The Persuasive Life of Friedrich Hayek......Page 43
Some Buried Female Lives in Economics......Page 48
"He's Smart. And He's a Nice Guy, Too."......Page 54
What You Read Is What You Are......Page 60
Cheating as a Scientist......Page 63
The Career Courage of Amartya Sen......Page 70
The Coolness of Alexander Gerschenkron......Page 76
The Passion of Robert Fogel......Page 89
How to Organize a Conference......Page 102
How to Host a Seminar Visitor......Page 107
"To Burn Always with a Hard, Gemlike Flame," Eh, Professor?......Page 112
How to Work......Page 117
The Rhetoric of Economics, Revisited......Page 122
The Rhetoric of Economic Development and of P. T. Bauer......Page 127
The Rhetoric of Finance......Page 132
Keynes Was a Sophist, and a Good Thing, Too......Page 137
An Executive Summary......Page 142
Why Write Well?......Page 148
Yes, Competence Is Profitable, Now That You Ask; But Why Ask?......Page 151
Kelly Green Golf Shoes and the Intellectual Range from M to N......Page 160
The Invisible College and the Death of Learning......Page 166
Economics: Art or Science or Who Cares?......Page 172
Reading I've Liked in the Humanities......Page 178
Schelling's Five Truths of Economics......Page 184
The Natural......Page 189
Why Economics Should Not Be Taught in High School......Page 193
The Loss Function Has Been Mislaid......Page 198
Why Economic Historians Should Drop Statistical Significance and Seek Oomph......Page 205
The Bankruptcy of Statistical Significance......Page 212
The Insignificance of Statistical Significance......Page 216
The A-Prime/C-Prime Theorem......Page 220
In Brief, It's Arrogant and Unscientific......Page 226
Quarreling with Ken Arrow about Existence Theorems......Page 231
Why Don't Economists Believe Empirical Findings?......Page 238
Ask What the Boys in the Sandbox Will Have......Page 244
Cassandra's Open Letter to Her Economist Colleagues......Page 249
Calibrated Simulation Is Storytelling......Page 258
Calibrated Simulation Is Outstripping Analytic Solutions......Page 261
Simulating Barbara......Page 264
An Economic Uncertainty Principle......Page 276
"Modesty Is the Best Policy," Says Herbert Stein......Page 279
References......Page 282
Index of Names......Page 292
Back Cover ......Page 299