Book Your Final Seminar Debate Next Wednesday on Gregory Clark's 'Farewell to Alms'
News from Marginal Revolution (here)
will host the last debate on Gregory Clark’s ‘A Farewell to Alms’ (Princeton University Press) on Wednesday next, 13 August. Tyler states: ‘I've been very happy with the experiment and we'll do another one; it is important to do just the right book.’
This will cover chapters 14 to 17 of AFTA, and will also include discussion on the book as a whole.
So far it has attracted a wide range of serious commentary and the readership is likely to have been much greater than those many joining in the discourse. My own comments are a minority of the comments posted to the debate, and I have learned as much from the comments from many others, as I received from reading ‘AFTA’.
Arnold Kling of EconLog (here) praises Tyler Cowen’s achievement in hosting such a debate (readers tackle a few chapters at a time and then contribute or read the debate that follows, and then move on a week later to the next few chapters) as the ‘Best Comment Thread Ever’.
With Gregory Clark commenting on the comments as well, it is a great learning experience, normally confined to in-house university seminars, but which readers everywhere can observe and join in.
I hope to see you all at next Wednesday’s on-line graduate seminar at Marginal Revolution.
will host the last debate on Gregory Clark’s ‘A Farewell to Alms’ (Princeton University Press) on Wednesday next, 13 August. Tyler states: ‘I've been very happy with the experiment and we'll do another one; it is important to do just the right book.’
This will cover chapters 14 to 17 of AFTA, and will also include discussion on the book as a whole.
So far it has attracted a wide range of serious commentary and the readership is likely to have been much greater than those many joining in the discourse. My own comments are a minority of the comments posted to the debate, and I have learned as much from the comments from many others, as I received from reading ‘AFTA’.
Arnold Kling of EconLog (here) praises Tyler Cowen’s achievement in hosting such a debate (readers tackle a few chapters at a time and then contribute or read the debate that follows, and then move on a week later to the next few chapters) as the ‘Best Comment Thread Ever’.
With Gregory Clark commenting on the comments as well, it is a great learning experience, normally confined to in-house university seminars, but which readers everywhere can observe and join in.
I hope to see you all at next Wednesday’s on-line graduate seminar at Marginal Revolution.
1 Comments:
I caught the tail-end of the debate, but it has been very enriching! I hope he decides to continue with another book, so I can join in next time.
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