It appears that Garet Garrett’s main economic influence in his early education is Simon Newcomb (1835-1909), who is described here is an early marginalist, an advocate of laissez-faire, and an opponent of institutionalism. His book on economics is on google books. A brief look shows him to be a gold standard guy. Anyone else know anything about him?
Source link: http://blog.mises.org/7303/simon-newcomb/
Simon Newcomb?
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You may want to cut down on the too frequent postings. There are already 6 on the front page and several of those only have 0 or 1 comments indicating that they haven’t been fully digested yet.
Since the subject was raised. I think the blog archive could use some work. Most importantly being able to go back to previous posts with greater ease. Perhaps by being able to see all posts from a given month rather than by a given day as it is now.
I agree with Nelson – it’s impossible to keep up at this rate. Maybe 1 every two days, but it’s too much otherwise.
just to add spice:
I say, post more often!
What’s any of that to do with Simon Newcomb?
Anyway, I know he was an astronomer. I got his book on the stars off Google Books last year when I landed the economics tome.
I still haven’t read either.
I believe, though I may be mistaken, that in some way he’s related professionally or by influence to Francis Wayland. I dunno.
Newcomb’s piece in the QJE 1893 is great. It’s called “The Problem of Economic Education.”
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