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Hoisted from Comments: Jim Leitzel quotes Adam Smith:
Grasping Reality with Both Hands: Economist Brad DeLong's Fair, Balanced, and Reality-Based Semi-Daily Journal: The most perfect modesty and plainness, joined to as much negligence as is consistent with the respect due to the company, ought to be the chief characteristics of the behaviour of a private man. If ever he hopes to distinguish himself, it must be by more important virtues...
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"I now know it is a rising, not a setting, sun" --Benjamin Franklin, 1787
J. Bradford DeLong, Professor of Economics at U.C Berkeley, a Research Associate of the NBER, a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and Chair of Berkeley's Political Economy major.
Among his best works are: "Is Increased Price Flexibility Stabilizing?" "Productivity Growth, Convergence, and Welfare," "Noise Trader Risk in Financial Markets," "Equipment Investment and Economic Growth," "Princes and Merchants: European City Growth Before the Industrial Revolution," "Why Does the Stock Market Fluctuate?" "Keynesianism, Pennsylvania-Avenue Style," "America's Peacetime Inflation: The 1970s," "American Fiscal Policy in the Shadow of the Great Depression," "Review of Robert Skidelsky (2000), John Maynard Keynes, volume 3, Fighting for Britain," "Between Meltdown and Moral Hazard: Clinton Administration International Monetary and Financial Policy," "Productivity Growth in the 2000s," "Asset Returns and Economic Growth."
The Eighteen-Year-Old is going to college next year, which means that I need to think about making more money. (The idea that one might write checks to rather than receive checks from universities is now strange to me.) So I have signed up with the Leigh Speakers' Bureau which also handles, among many others: Chris Anderson; Suzanne Berger; Michael Boskin; Kenneth Courtis; Clive Crook; Bill Emmott; Robert H. Frank; William Goetzmann; Douglas J. Holtz-Eakin; Paul Krugman; Bill McKibben; Paul Romer; Jeffrey Sachs; Robert Shiller;James Surowiecki; Martin Wolf; Adrian Wooldridge.
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Of course Adam Smith never married - so no matter how distinguished his virtues were a flashier wardrobe may have done wonders for his social life.
Posted by: CBBB | February 14, 2008 at 05:32 PM
CBBB,
You are assuming that not being married was an impediment to his social life, no?
Posted by: tedb | February 14, 2008 at 05:53 PM
So since we are taking fashion advice from the 18th century....Wigs: Powdered or not?
Posted by: Tomas | February 15, 2008 at 01:02 AM
Sounds like a sweat pants guy to me. But, pulled up to his waist thankfully.
Posted by: dennisS | February 15, 2008 at 02:42 AM
Brad, what you should do (in your copious free time) is to send that originator of the comment on professorial dressage a note to the effect that only unsuccessful professors worry about what they wear. The successful ones have no time to worry, and are too successful to need to worry.
Posted by: Barry | February 15, 2008 at 05:44 AM