my guess: Frank Hahn for (1) and Phil Mirowski for (2). Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
> -----Original Message----- > From: Ian Murray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 7:32 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PEN-L:20584] pop quiz in lieu of finals > > > Who said the following: > > 1)"Economic theorists may have to become as much philosophers as > mathematicians." > > a)Frank Hahn > b)Wassily Leontif > c)Jack Hirshleifer > d)Roger Sugden > > > 2)'[T]he evolution of economics as an academic profession is a case of > lock-in comparable to the peacock's tail. Sets of genes producing the > beautiful tail in the mail, and making it sexually attractive to the > female, are mutually reinforcing, and become selected because of the > greater progeny involved. However, there is no useful function > performed: no enhancement of fitness in terms of finding food or > escaping predators...Just as the beautiful tail evolves with the > peacock, economics has evolved an ever more intricate and beautiful > mathematical formalism, similarly with no functional advantage for the > development for economic policy." > > a)Geoffrey Hodgson > b)Karla Hoff > b)Philip Mirowski > d)Warren Samuels >
