http://www.cinematical.com/2005/10/03/caption-this-what-megaflicks-its-a-video-store/

http://www.simonperry.org/arlington-pediatric-center-the-worst-logo-ever/

You can only hope the designer was fired for this.

I forgot which journal did it, but there was an article a while back asking Nobel winning economists which papers they thought were the most important. Keynes book was the only thing on every list (including Friedman and Stigler’s).

Perhaps our list should be the most important economics oriented strategy scholars. And perhaps the list should only include people whose contribution we believe to be positive. I can think of a few highly cited people whose work I think has largely led to reams of wasted paper (no names).

Really enjoyed the quote. I specifically like that he refers to intellectuals performing the “role as intermediary in the spreading of ideas.” I feel that there are some people in the libertarian intellectual community who encourage only the production of new knowledge. While Hayek seems to lay out here,that our job is not necessarily to be super smart and constantly be creating new ideas. But instead, we should be intermediaries in spreading ideas. Not everyone can create great new ideas, but everyone can spread them effectively.

I feel some intellectuals in the libertarian movement spend their time in areas of idea production which is not their comparative advantage while ignoring what Hayek here sees as a goal of intellectuals.

http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2007/04/19/things-you-shouldnt-say-at-your-dissertation-defense/

Paleontology has one of the biggest characters-as-guru: Bob Bakker (http://www.hmns.org/exhibits/curators/bob_bakker.asp?r=1) who was the model for the Sam Sam Neill character in Jurassic Park. The late Harvard prof and essayist Stephen J. Gould is a guru for all time and had several guru buddies (Richard Lewontin and Nils Etheridge) and gurus nemeses (e.g. Richard Dawkins).

Physics has had many gurus such as Murray Gell-man, Edward Teller, Richard Feynman, and david Bohm. There are many in the fields of ecology, genetics, psychology, and cosmology.

How do we not count as gurus (matching the style of the WSJ business gurus) such economists as Milton Friedman, J.K. Galbraith, Steven Levitt (once called the Carl Sagan of Economics!), the erstwhile guru of the Neo-cons, Arthur Laffer.