EJW-Mercatus Symposium: A Worthy Exception!
From Daniel Klein:
New Buturovic-Klein Survey on Economic Enlightenment, Results Coming May 2011
Zeljka Buturovic and Daniel Klein have designed and fielded a new survey with 17 questions of basic economic insight. The survey was completed only recently. The results will appear in the May 2011 issue of Econ Journal Watch.
Matthew Brown joins EJW Advisory Council
EJW’s first Managing Editor was Matthew Brown, who helped to create EJW and who served for more than three years. In August, 2010 Matt was awarded his doctorate in economics at Florida State University, under the supervision of James Gwartney and Bruce Benson. His dissertation is entitled, “Determinants of Economic Institutions.”
Invitation to Critics of Buturovic-Klein on Economic Enlightenment
By Zeljka Buturovic and Daniel Klein
Nobel Laureate Oliver Williamson joins EJW Advisory Council
EJW is proud to announce that Oliver Williamson of University of California, Berkeley, has joined the EJW Advisory Council. Professor Williamson was awarded the Nobel prize in economics in 2009 for his analysis of transaction costs, markets, and hierarchies.
Best of Econ Journal Watch at APEE, Las Vegas, April 11-13, 2010
Klein, Benson, White, and perhaps Selgin and Foldvary, and many EJW friends and authors, will be at the conference of the Association of Private Enterprise Education, which will continue its tradition of staging “Best of Econ Journal Watch“ sessions.
Inside Higher Ed focuses on EJW
EJW was the focus of a major and sympathetic article in Inside Higher Ed, Who You Calling Heterodox? (Oct 3, 2007). The article devoted numerous paragraphs to EJW, and treated EJW editor Dan Klein as the central figure of a classical-liberal “counterinsurgency.”
EJW featured in Regional Focus
In October 2008 the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond published Unsteady State [PDF], the lead article of its journal Regional Focus. The theme of the issue is “The State of Modern Economics.” The article begins by telling of the formation of EJW and the meeting in St. Louis in 2003, and returns to EJW at the end of the article.
Paul Krugman wins the Nobel Prize
When Paul Krugman won the Nobel prize, the front page article of the New York Times carried this paragraph:
Nobel laureate Harry Markowitz joins EJW Advisory Council
EJW is proud to announce three new members of the EJW Advisory Council: