Remembering Basil Yamey
Thanks to a selection by Erik Thompson for the mailing list of the historians of economic thought, I ran into...
Obituaries
Betsy Bailey RIP
Economist Elizabeth (Betsy) Bailey died on August 19. She was one of the key members of the Civil Aeronautics Board...
In Memorium: Geoffrey Brennan
There were two sides to the late Geoffrey Brennan. The first was the world class academic and intellectual who was...
George H. Smith, RIP
I’ve held off writing an obituary for George Smith because I wasn’t sure that the obituary friends pointed to was...
Dave Mayers RIP
An economist who understood price controls at a very personal level. Earlier this month, I learned that financial economist Dave...
Henderson’s Criticisms and Appreciations of John Kenneth Galbraith
I’ve been in a discussion on Facebook in the last few days on the topic of John Kenneth Galbraith. In...
William J. Haga, An Appreciation
I learned this morning that my former colleague and mentor, Bill Haga, died at age 83 on January 6. Here’s...
Remembering Luigi Einaudi and the Italian Economic Miracle
On this day in 1961 Luigi Einaudi (1874-1961) passed away. Einaudi was a household name for generations of Italians: a...
Bob Chitester RIP
Bob Chitester, who produced the famous Free to Choose series for PBS, died on Saturday, May 8. I gave an...
Appreciating Walter Williams
On December 2, just hours after teaching his last class at George Mason University, economist Walter Williams died. He was...
