Comments on: Book #8: The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100 by Robert William Fogel

By: David Airth

David Airth — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

From you I learned of Robert William Fogel. I knew of Douglass North. But I didn’t know they had shared a Nobel Prize.

You also mentioned Amartya Sen. These three economist were awarded Nobel Prizes in Economics based on their social approach to economics. The economic establishment was somewhat amazed at this because economic awards generally have been giving in recognition of microeconomics not macroeconomics. Economists like John Galbraith have been lambasted and marginalized for taking a social approach to economics, even to the point of being called a communist. Many economist don’t take the human factor into account or seriously enough. They see it too much as a science that can be imposed.

Robert L. Heilbroner, an economic historian who died recently, often made an issue of the fact that economics had become too micro and not broad based enough. He too wasn’t looked upon kindly by the economic establishment. I recommend his book “The Worldly Philosophers: The lives, times and ideas of the great economic thinkers”.

Economics is the toughest discipline and also the first discipline. Lenin called it the “commanding heights”. Economists all over have been perplexed about how to make economics work successfully in places it has never really worked at all. It takes a lot of time and patients, and involves a lot of variables and contingents. There has to be some kind of “magical” platform in place before it take off. I come from a supposedly developed country, Argentina, which took several generations and debacles to get it somewhat right.

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paragraph of — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Silent Crys

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