I was looking over the titles that you suggested to Marta, and was a bit surprised to see Richard Dawkins', "the Selfish Gene" on the list. I'm only familiar with his work in biology. Have you read material of his on economics or political issues?
Thanks,
Jean-Paul
On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, S Pawlett wrote:
> Marta Russell wrote:
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> > Another dumb request.
> > Can someone give me the names of a few free market economists aside from
> > Milton Friedman.
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> There are different schools of laissez-faire economic philosophy; Austrian,
> Chicago and property rights. I would recommend _The Machinery of Freedom_
> by Milton's son David Friedman. _The Nature of the Firm_ and _The Problem
> of Social Costs_ (essays) by Ronald Coase. The Fable of the Bees by Bernard
> Mandeville. _The Socialist Calculation Debate_ by Don Lavoie. _Anarchy,
> State and Utopia_ by Robert Nozick, _Libertarianism_By John Hospers, _Human
> Action_ by Ludwig von Mises, _The Socialist System_ by Janos Kornai,
> _Property Rights_ by S. Pejovich,_The Other Path_ by Hernando de Soto, _For
> a New Liberty_ by Murray Rothbard and _The Selfish Gene_ by Richard Dawkins.
> Other well known economists are A.Alchian, H Demsetz, O.Williamson, J Viner,
> F Knight.....
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> Socialist Critiques: _Anti-Libertarianism_ by Alan Haworth ,
> _Self-Ownership, Equality and Freedom_ by G.A. Cohen. _Apostles of Greed_ by
> Allan Engler, _Anti-Samuelson_ by Marc Linder, _ Against Capitalism_ by
> David Schweikart, _Conservatism_ by Ted Honderich,
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