J.J. Persky's Index….
"What would life be without
arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?" Rev. Sydney Smith (1835)
Lavish
praise to Tijanu Banovic, Anna Gil, Todd Guilfoos, and Joe Lee for identifying
last month’s last mystery economist as David Hume, propounder of the price
specie flow mechanism and close friend of Adam Smith.
Mystery Economist 
David Hume
Here’s a new mystery economist.
Win lavish praise by identifying him. Submit answers to jpersky@uic.edu.
Hint:
He was an acute economiste.
History
of Economic Thought (Econ 326)
Urban
Economics (Econ 332)
"We
are not called upon to complete the task, but neither are we free to evade
it." Talmudic Injunction