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What Course Would You Take If You Could?

Bryan Caplan asks a great question, and points to David Friedman's course on alternative legal institutions. I agree with Bryan on that choice, but I imagine that Pete's class on development and Tyler's courses on law and literature might be up there.

What examples would you give?

Posted by Peter Boettke on April 16, 2009 at 10:50 AM | Permalink

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"Take teachers not courses" anything taught by John List.

Posted by: Daniel J. D'Amico | April 16, 2009 at 11:13 AM

I suspect my suggestion, Introduction to Empirical Research with Steve Levitt http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/econ421.html will get little traction here.

Pushing the envelope of time travel just a little bit, I'd go with a graduate micro course with the man himself, Armen Alchian.

Posted by: Zac | April 16, 2009 at 11:19 AM

Ec 10 with Mankiw. Those Harvard kids are lucky to get a solid base of economics with such a great professor.

Posted by: Tom Church | April 16, 2009 at 11:19 AM

Oh I was going to say Quantum Electrodynamics with Richard Feynman, but then I saw the actual question.

Pete, are you saying that two of your top three econ classes in the world are at GMU? Or are you factoring in the hassle of taking a class at LSE?

Posted by: Bob Murphy | April 16, 2009 at 11:23 AM

Anything by McCloskey.

Posted by: Steve Horwitz | April 16, 2009 at 11:24 AM

Public and Environmental Affairs - Workshop in Public Policy, Elinor Ostrom

Posted by: Pablo Abitbol | April 16, 2009 at 12:31 PM

I would take "Economics in the Bloomsbury Group" at Duke:
http://www.econ.duke.edu/CHOPE/Web%20Page/195-fall2008syllabus.pdf

Posted by: Student @ NCSU | April 16, 2009 at 12:34 PM

Zac,
Note the suggestion by Dan to take List. I think your impressions are flawed. Levitt's natural experiment approach is intriguing to many of us.

Posted by: Peter Boettke | April 16, 2009 at 01:28 PM

Something like "Economic History of Humanity" with Douglass North.

Max

Posted by: Maximum Liberty | April 16, 2009 at 04:48 PM

I like Zac's Levitt recommend. I would also like public choice with Bryan Caplan, "constitutional econ" by Boettke, and "econ develop" by Easterly. Since the question is singlular I would most pick Easterly - reflecting on the wealth of nations started things off, and there are so many deep questions.

Posted by: Arare Litus | April 16, 2009 at 06:30 PM

I agree with Dan. I didn't know he was a List fan, too!

Posted by: Steve Miller | April 16, 2009 at 09:54 PM

Economic Sociology with Swedberg!

Posted by: Brian Pitt | April 16, 2009 at 10:08 PM

Something on labor markets with Edna Bonacich or urban sociology with William Julius Wilson.

Posted by: Josh | April 17, 2009 at 12:46 PM

more ETHICS.

NOBODY takes enough courses in ETHICS.

if more people studied ethics, we might not have such social equivocation about one's vocation for corruption...

perspective, people.

Perspective.