Why don’t economists get invited to the good parties? Professor Sarah Skwire (Poet) thinks it has to do with economists’ choice of words. According to her, it seems, the optimal amount of economists to invite to an evening social would be close to zero. Economists probably aren’t known for the liveliness of their dinner conversations, but as (economist) Professor Steve Horwitz argues, their use of vocabulary reveals certain nuances contained within the economic way of thinking. But don’t just take my word for it, hear it straight from them in the video below.
Sarah Skwire
Senior Fellow, Liberty Fund, Inc.
Sarah Skwire is a Senior Fellow at Liberty Fund, Inc., a non-profit educational foundation and the author of the college writing textbook, Writing with a Thesis, which is in its 12th edition. Sarah has published a range of academic articles on subjects from Shakespeare to zombies and the broken window…
Steven Horwitz
Schnatter Distinguished Professor of Free Enterprise, Ball State University
Steven Horwitz is the Schnatter Distinguished Professor of Free Enterprise in the Department of Economics at Ball State University, where he also is a Fellow at the John H. Schnatter Institute for Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise. He is the author of Hayek’s Modern Family: Classical Liberalism and the Evolution of…