Economists on How to Do Economics
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張五常: 讀書的方法
張五常: 思考的方法
Hwang, Chun-sin 黃春興
What is Economics
經濟學是什麼？
Hwang, Chun-sin
"Economics, Mathematics, and Shao-Lin martial arts." (in Chinese)
Speech at the First Economics Camp for High School Students, National Tsing Hua University, Hsin Chu, Taiwan, Aug 23, 1996.
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對我而言，「經濟學」就像是佛法，而「數學」則可比擬為少林絕技。藉著數學的使用，當今的經濟學者可以讓自己的思考更為嚴謹，也可以輕易地去批評其他學者犯下的錯誤。但是，就像迷戀少林絕技會荒廢佛法一般
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... For me, economics is like Buddhist practice while mathematics is like Shao-Lin killer (special) techniques. By using mathematics, modern economists can make their thinking more rigorous and easily avoid mistakes committed by other scholars. However, just as infatuation with Shao-Lin techniques leads to neglecting and deserting the Buddhist practice ...
(translated from Chinese)
Caplan, Bryan
"Intellectual Autobiography of Bryan Caplan."
Cowen, Tyler
"A Short Intellectual Autobiography."
Cowen, Tyler
"How Do Economists Think About Rationality?"
Klein, Daniel (ed.)
What Do Economists Contribute?
Macmillan and New York University Press, 1999.
Krugman, Paul
"How I work."
1993.
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Here are the rules:
1. Listen to the Gentiles,
2. Question the question,
3. Dare to be silly
4. Simplify, simplify
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Landes, William M.
"The Art of Law and Economics: An Autobiographical Essay,"
41 The American Economist, No. 1 (Spring 1997).
Reprinted in Passion and Craft, Economists at Work, Szenberg, Michael ed. Ann Arbor: Michigan University Press, 1998.
Lucas, Robert E.
"What Economists Do."
December 9, 1988.
Mankiw, N. Gregory.
"My Rules of Thumb."
Roberts, Harry and Weil, Roman
"Starting Research Early,"
University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (August 14, 1970)
in Rasmusen, Eric (Ed.)
Readings in Games and Information,
Blackwell Publishers, May 2001, pp. 134-141.
Rasmusen, Eric
"Aphorisms on Writing, Speaking, and Listening,"
in Rasmusen, Eric (Ed.)
Readings in Games and Information,
Blackwell Publishers, May 2001, pp. 389-420.
Rasmusen, Eric
Overheads on writing and speaking
Thomson, William
A Guide for the Young Economist. The MIT Press, 2001.
Varian, Hal R.
"How to Build an Economic Model in your Spare Time,"
in Szenberg, Michael (ed.)
Passion and Craft: Economists at Work, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997.
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