It Is Not Easy To Get Rich

The Failure Of Market Catallactics In No Way Denies The Following Truth: Given Sufficient Knowledge The Optimal Decisions Can Always Be Found By Scanning Over All The Attainable States Of The World And Selecting The One Which According To The Postulated Ethical Welfare Function Is Best. The Solution 'exists'; The Problem Is How To 'find' It.

I Don't Care Very Much For The People Magazine Approach To Applied Economics.

Economists Are Said To Disagree Too Much But In Ways That Are Too Much Alike: If Eight Sleep In The Same Bed, You Can Be Sure That, Like Eskimos, When They Turn Over, They'll All Turn Over Together.

Two Factors Explain Our Success. One, Mit's Renaissance After World War Ii As A Federally Supported Research Resource. Two, The Mathematical Revolution In Macro- And Micro-economic Theory And Statistics. This Was Overdue And Inevitable, Mit Was The Logical Place For It To Flourish.

In This Age Of Specialization, I Sometimes Think Of Myself As The Last 'generalist' In Economics, With Interests That Range From Mathematical Economics Down To Current Financial Journalism. My Real Interests Are Research And Teaching.