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The secret life of economists

Robert J. Shiller and Virginia M. Shiller (Yale): Economists as Worldly Philosophers. From Poroi, Deirdre McCloskey and John Lyne talk about laissez faire capitalism and the free market. Barefoot Economics: It's time for economists to start getting dirty. Beyond free trade: Meet the heterodox economists challenging globalism. Making an impact: Here are 8 accomplished African-American economists. Where are the female economics bloggers? From Imprimis, William McGurn, a vice president at News Corporation, on the not so dismal science: humanitarians v. economists. The secret life of economists: Conflicts of interest throughout the Dismal Science are more common than you know. John Case on the con job of libertarian "economics". Great economist, greater humanitarian: Jack Calfee’s scholarship was an instrument of human improvement to combat ignorance and error, reduce pain and suffering, and to discover arrangements that would allow people to live more satisfying and productive lives. The Matchmaker: Harvard economist Alvin Roth stopped just studying the world and began trying to fix it. A review of The Anti-Keynesian Tradition by Robert Leeson. Benjamin Wallace-Wells on Paul Krugman’s lonely crusade for liberalism. Brad DeLong on economics in crisis (and more by Krugman). Dismal science redeemed: A review of Redeeming Economics: Rediscovering the Missing Element by John D. Mueller (and part 2). From the Distributist Review, John Medaille on capitalism as an unnatural system. Institutional economics is a branch of "critical theory" which, when focused on examination, analysis and critique of society and culture, draws concepts and data from across the entire range of social sciences and humanities. Why economists stubbornly stick to their guns: Lessons have been learnt from the financial crisis, but the lesson most people have learnt is that they were right all along.