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David Henderson on Economists’ Nobels, Obituaries, and More

The Great Antidote

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Late economists and their contributions: A personal account

I was a math major at the University of Winnipeg in Canada. We had we spent our annual budget one year 1970 on getting one economist to come to town and give three talks. And he's the one who turned me on to economics. He laid out how you don't always need government to define property rights. Sometimes they come about naturally. His other thing was what people call the Nirvana fallacy, which is comparing actual markets with ideal government.

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