Moral Philosophers in an Age of Scientism

I think a great book in the modern intellectual history of economics and political economy could focus on Kenneth Boulding, Albert Hirschman and Tibor Scitovsky.  F. A. Hayek and James Buchanan could be used to frame the discussion, but the intellectual biographic case studies of Boulding, Hirschman and Scitovsky would put a fine point on the fate of political economy conceived of as a branch of moral philosophy during the post WWII era.

I studied with Boulding at GMU in late 1980s, and I corresponded with Hirschman and visited him at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in the early 1990s, though I never met Scitovsky.

The Social Science Research Council has now established the Albert O. Hirschman Award for Interdisciplinary work in the Social Sciences.  The winner for 2007 is Dani Rodrik. Rodrik is a very worthy winner of this award --- a very creative and provocative thinker.  And now a blogger as well.

Thanks to Tyler for the pointer.

Comments

[Carl Marks]

The true mark of a celebrity is when only one name is needed for everyone to understand who you are talking about. To the list that includes Madonna and Sinatra we can add Tyler, at least in the econ blogosphere.

[Rafe Champion]

Realistically, the econ blogosphere is pretty small beer in the larger scheme, still Tyler is getting coverage elsewhere as well. http://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-reviews/ACL845LEHNC7/ref=cm_cr_auth/002-4350629-5117632?ie=UTF8&sort%5Fby=MostRecentReview

[Pearl]

Great, the comments under Leeson's post are deactivated. Must be a vice or something.