Learned here on YA that Murray Rothbard (in his book Man, Economy and State) was the first one to use the character Robinson Crusoe (in book by Daniel Defoe) for an economic model. In this model, the individual has to supply all of his wants and needs, and learn to hunt and farm and make furniture etc, etc.
Is it possible to here propose a Calpurnian Economic Model? According to the storyteller in Harper Lee’s book/movie (To Kill A Mockingbird), Calpurnia taught her son, Zeebo, to read the fonts used in printed books and participated with Miss Maudie, Aunt Alexandra in nurturing a daughter in the Finch family who had lost her mother. One of the daughters in the book, in the Ewell family by contrast, did not have three caring adults to help her grow to adulthood.
2007-03-05
01:53:12
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Economist responded - I don't know the Calpurnia book so I am not well placed to comment on your idea. The purpose of the Robinson Crusoe/Man Friday "model" is to illustrate such useful principles of economics as the benefits of trade and the divison of labour. (I myself wonder if this is narrow thinking)
2007-03-05
05:50:56 ·
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