Web Photos of Economists
I came across Professor Deardorff’s Rogue’s Gallery of international economists while looking for Keith Maskus’s email address yesterday (I was at the Midwest Trade Meeting in Nashville, presenting my product quality paper, and wanted to send him some comments.) It’s a good idea: collect together photos of people in your field. Then, when someone goes to a conference in that field, he can look up the faces of people he is likely to see. As I get older, I have met an increasing fraction of the profession. Indeed, I may be at the maximum, since at some point deaths exceed new introductions (r.i.p. George Stigler, Sherwin Rosen, Fischer Black, William Vickrey, John Harsanyi, Franco Modigliani, James Tobin, Charles Kindleberger, Myres McDougal …). It is hard to remember who I’ve met, and who I’ve merely heard of. Pictures are helpful. The day will come when every conference has not only the attendance list, but the attendance list with photos.