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Tables of Contents for How to Be Human
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Be Who You Are, Even if an Economist
Some News That Will at Least Not Bore You
1
6
It Helps to Be a Don if You're Going to Be a Deirdre
7
3
A Libertarian Abroad
10
2
Love or Money
12
5
Make Your Economics Courageously Part of Your Identity, and Vice Versa
Aunt Deirdre's Letter to a Graduate Student
17
5
``Better than Plowing,'' Says Jim Buchanan
22
6
The Economic Tourism of Armen Alchian
28
4
The Persuasive Life of Friedrich Hayek
32
5
Some Buried Female Lives in Economics
37
6
Get Ethics beyond ``Have a Nice Career''
``He's Smart. And He's a Nice Guy, Too.''
43
6
What You Read Is What You Are
49
3
Cheating as a Scientist
52
7
Follow the Brave
The Career Courage of Amartya Sen
59
6
The Coolness of Alexander Gerschenkron
65
13
The Passion of Robert Fogel
78
13
Work and Pray
How to Organize a Conference
91
5
How to Host a Seminar Visitor
96
5
``To Burn Always with a Hard, Gemlike Flame,'' Eh, Professor?
101
5
How to Work
106
5
Watch Your Words and the Work They Do
The Rhetoric of Economics, Revisited
111
5
The Rhetoric of Economic Development and of P. T. Bauer
116
5
The Rhetoric of Finance
121
5
Keynes Was a Sophist, and a Good Thing, Too
126
5
Learn to Write at Least Competently
Economical Writing: An Executive Summary
131
6
Why Write Well?
137
3
Yes, Cometence Is Profitable, Now That You Ask; But Why Ask?
140
9
Don't Specialize without Intellectual Trade
Kelly Green Golf Shoes and the Intellectual Range from M to N
149
6
The Invisible College and the Death of Learning
155
6
Read More Widely
Economics: Art or Science or Who Cares?
161
6
Reading I've Liked in the Humanities
167
6
Learn Price Theory, Which is No Easy Task
Schelling's Five Truths of Economics
173
5
The Natural
178
4
Why Economics Should Not Be Taught in High School
182
5
Don't Be Silly about Statistical ``Significance''
The Loss Function Has Been Mislaid
187
7
Why Economic Historians Should Drop Statistical Significance and Seek Oomph
194
7
The Bankruptcy of Statistical Significance
201
4
The Insignificance of Statistical Significance
205
4
And Don't Be Silly about A-Prime, C-Prime ``Proofs'' in Economics, Either
The A-Prime/C-Prime Theorem
209
6
In Brief, It's Arrogant and Unscientific
215
5
Quarreling with Ken Arrow about Existence Theorems
220
7
Take Rules 11 and 12 Entirely Seriously
Why Don't Economists Believe Empirical Findings?
227
6
Ask What the Boys in the Sandbox Will Have
233
5
Cassandra's Open Letter to Her Economist Colleagues
238
9
Simulate, Simulate: Calibrate, Calibrate
Calibrated Simulation Is Storytelling
247
3
Calibrated Simulation Is Outstripping Analytic Solutions
250
3
Simulating Barbara
253
12
Yet Don't Be Too Certain of Your ``Expertise''
An Economic Uncertainty Principle
265
3
``Modesty Is the Best Policy,'' Says Herbert Stein
268
3
Refereces
271
10
Index of Names
281