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Who is the best economist according to you?
930 sats \ 48 comments \ @BitcoinAbhi 12 Aug econ
Economists were/are some of the most sought after breeds in the world. The reason is simple, they have the ability to predict the outcome of the any financial decision.
There are/were many famous and great economists in the world. It seems as if all matched each other in quality. But we're here at Stacker News poll, we'll find out who is the best economist of this world?
So, tell SN, Who, according to you is the best economist?
Here, My favourite are @grayruby, @Tomk and @undisciplined
Abhijit Banerjee4.8%
Adam Smith33.3%
Alberto Alesina0.0%
Carmen Reinhart0.0%
Daron Acemoglu0.0%
Hernando de Soto0.0%
James Heckman0.0%
John Maynard Keynes4.8%
Milton Friedman23.8%
Other ( Write in comment box)33.3%
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288 sats \ 6 replies \ @TomK 12 Aug
Ludwig von Mises Murray Rothbard Hans-H. Hoppe
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221 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined 12 Aug
I have the same answer, so I'll give an honorable mention to Kenneth Arrow.
He used more modern mathematical notation to demonstrate several extremely important results: i.e. collective decision making cannot be done fairly and the market clearing price will always be at an optimally efficient level.
He doesn't get enough credit, imo, because his indisputable conclusions are very inconvenient for the wannabe technocrats who dominate the profession and because his mathematical approach is not appreciated by the Austrians.
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108 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 12 Aug
+1 for Ken Arrow.
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56 sats \ 1 reply \ @TomK 12 Aug
yes, it's true, I studied so long ago that I've already forgotten so many details. but an interesting personality in this context indeed
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68 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 12 Aug
I decided to become an economist after reading Arrow's Impossibility Theorem.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 12 Aug
How this poll doesn’t list Mises is beyond me
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Enemy_of_the_state 12 Aug
THIS IS THE ONLY CORRECT ANSWER (dont forget Carl Menger)
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69 sats \ 2 replies \ @siggy47 12 Aug
Von Mises Hayek
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75 sats \ 1 reply \ @BitcoinAbhi OP 12 Aug
What about Adam smith?
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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 12 Aug
Nothing bad to say about him. He spoke to himself and had imaginary friends, which I consider a good thing.
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57 sats \ 10 replies \ @cryotosensei 12 Aug
The one who wrote Freaknomics
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0 sats \ 9 replies \ @BitcoinAbhi OP 12 Aug
Do you mean Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner?
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11 sats \ 8 replies \ @Undisciplined 12 Aug
Levitt is the economist of that pair.
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69 sats \ 1 reply \ @BitcoinAbhi OP 12 Aug
Yes, you are right. Stephen is the journalist of New York Times. But when we search the name of the author of the book, both the names come together.
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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 12 Aug
Dubner also ended up hosting the Freakonomics podcast.
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33 sats \ 5 replies \ @grayruby 12 Aug
Hold on. I thought you wrote that? Haha
Didn't someone ask you that on SN?
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100 sats \ 4 replies \ @Undisciplined 12 Aug
Maybe I'm taking up referring to myself in the third person, a la @TheWildHustle.
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52 sats \ 2 replies \ @TheWildHustle 12 Aug
Bullish on 3rd people
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50 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 12 Aug
We know you are Hustle.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @TheWildHustle 12 Aug
You get a zap as well Ruby.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 12 Aug
Gotcha
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44 sats \ 4 replies \ @grayruby 12 Aug
@Undisciplined is my favourite economist. He is the only one I get to voice my disagreement with. This feature is paramount to me.
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50 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined 12 Aug
Much appreciated. Who's to say that I wasn't one of the options in that poll?
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52 sats \ 2 replies \ @grayruby 12 Aug
I always knew you were Adam Smith. For fuck sakes man, couldn't you have made the wealth of nations a bit shorter?
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71 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 12 Aug
Publishers used to pay by the word.
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 12 Aug
If only we could get the same deal from SN. One sat per word.
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43 sats \ 0 replies \ @dontforgetthekeys 12 Aug
I don't think there is any one best, they are all coming from their own views. I think aggregating their views helps us shape a bigger picture.
If this answer does not satisfy then I pick Satoshi THE GOAT Nakamoto. referencing @siggy47 post lol.
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32 sats \ 1 reply \ @Solomonsatoshi 12 Aug
Adam Smith (invisible) hands down especially like his attitude on making the rich pay more tax than the poor. His reasoning is far more sophisticated than the neoliberal libertarian nonsense that claims Smiths work somehow justifies their crude greed is good decadence.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BitcoinAbhi OP 12 Aug
Agree
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32 sats \ 2 replies \ @riberet19 12 Aug
For me Milton Friedman, but I respect Adam Smith a lot too.
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16 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 12 Aug
Agree 👍
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BitcoinAbhi OP 12 Aug
Both are great.
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34 sats \ 3 replies \ @Coinsreporter 12 Aug
This man is the greatest Economist of all times.
https://m.stacker.news/45359
And this is the best book on Economics ever written.
https://m.stacker.news/45360
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17 sats \ 1 reply \ @BitcoinAbhi OP 12 Aug
He is GOAT.
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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinsreporter 12 Aug
Undisputed!
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22 sats \ 0 replies \ @Golu 13 Aug
The greatest teacher of all times!
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @wingalt 13 Aug
Paul Krugman, he has a Nobel prize so that's proof
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @cristaiji 12 Aug
Serious answer - the Austrian school guys, Hayek etc.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @cristaiji 12 Aug
Paul Krugman is a genius. 😄
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SatsMate 13 Aug
Adam smith takes it from me! It depends on the time period from my view. Smtih is as classic as it gets.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 12 Aug
I have a hard time ranking people for many reasons but one big one is if they lived in different times they likely influenced each other. They likely built on top of each other's ideas or at least in contrast.
Now I really like Mises, Rothbard, and Hoppe but wouldn't presume to say any of those are the best. They all have contributed to the knowledge we have.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @jerrybature 12 Aug
Carl Menger von Mised Murray Rothbard
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satoshi__Nakamoto 12 Aug
No doubt the father
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kruw 12 Aug
Robert Murphy
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BitByBit21 12 Aug
Satoshi Nakamoto
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