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A few weeks back, the White House was jubilant when 23 prominent economists sent a letter to President Obama endorsing key elements of the Senate health care bill. Today, nearly all of those same economists and a few others--among them, Nobel prize winners, former presidents of the American Economic Association and former directors of the

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... those who consider themselves friends) have often asserted three things: (1) Austrian economists are ignored in the profession; (2) you cannot both be an Austrian economist and recognized as a successful economist; ... the past few centuries.  But it has a more comprehensive list of the birthdays of the significant economists over that time period as well -- from Adam Smith to Steve Levitt.  To be ...

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