sgoldbaum

Anwar Shaikh has left this world. He was so clear in his thinking that he left a deep imprint on the thinking of generations of New School students and readers behind. He would always insist that we had to get the first principles right. If you start from an absurd model and then argue the world is imperfect measured against that standard from cloud cuckoo land, you have gone astray with no way to return but to start anew. He wanted to rebuild economics from scratch going back to the classics and in this process became a classic himself. It’s hard to picture economics without Anwar. As we are challenged to rebuild the basics, we need his thinking more than ever. Thank you for leaving your writing for us. May you rest in peace.