mwengler comments on Rationality Quotes July 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: mwengler 04 July 2012 06:03:15PM *  0 points [-]

I predict that if we were to poll professional economists a century from now about who is the intellectual founder of the discipline [economics], I say we'd get a majority responding by naming Charles Darwin, not Adam Smith.

Robert H. Frank, 2011 September 12, speaking on Russ Roberts' EconTalk podcast. The rest of the quote can be found near 14:11 in the transcript. Robert H Frank was talking a lot about his book The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good.

Comment author: Swimmy 04 July 2012 07:59:01PM 6 points [-]

Interesting, and I would happily bet against that prediction.