In an earlier post we met the Ruggles Family Dynasty, three generations of economists with Harvard economics Ph.Ds. Silly me that I thought that this might have been a unique constellation, but in the meantime I have “discovered” a second observation. Meet the Orcutt-Nakamura dynasty of economists! Painstaking empirical analysis reveals that both dynasties […]
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The following M.I.T. economics skit from ca. 1971 attains biblical proportions or at least displays biblical pretensions. The script comes from Robert Solow’s file of many such skits that Roger Backhouse has copied during his archival research. Alas this script displays some half-dozen gaps, but there is always some hope that the missing parts […]
Sometime in the second half of the 1980’s, when my stock as an expert on the economy of the German Democratic Republic was reasonably high and the future fall of the Berlin Wall was still sufficiently somewhere over the rainbow, the President of the Johns Hopkins University (Stephen Mueller) apparently hoped enough to attract […]
The annual skit party was a huge social event in the economics department at MIT in the 1970s and presumably before and after. Each of the cohorts was expected to write and perform its own skit in which economics and economics professors were the principal targets. Faculty written skits were often a part of […]
Complete List of Artifacts This is a chronological catalog of postings to Economics in the Rear-View Mirror. You can subscribe to the blog and receive fresh artifacts in the history of economics (with a focus on the teaching of undergraduate and graduate economics in the U.S. between 1870 and 1970) delivered to your e-mailbox following this […]