Google-Linked Scholarship

3 May 2013 at 9:54 pm Peter G. Klein 3 comments

| Peter Klein |

Have you noticed that when you search for a person on Google, the sidebar shows you other linked people searches (“People also search for”)? E.g., if you search for yours truly, it pulls up Nicolai Foss, Joe Salerno, Bob Murphy, and Israel Kirzner. I’m not sure how the algorithm works; is it the likelihood these searches are combined, or searched in sequence, or does it have to do with cross-links in search results? Anyway, it’s interesting to see who Google things is related to whom. For instance

Peter G. Klein ==> Nicolai Foss, Joseph Salerno, Robert P. Murphy, Israel Kirzner

Nicolai Foss ==> Peter G. Klein, Edith Penrose, Israel Kirzner, Oliver E. Williamson

Oliver E. Williamson ==> Ronald Coase, Elinor Ostrom, Douglass North, Armen Alchian

Murray N. Rothbard ==> Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Frédéric Bastiat, Henry Hazlitt

Paul Krugman ==> John Law, P. T. Barnum, Charles Ponzi, Beelzebub

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3 Comments Add your own

1. Jed Harris | 3 May 2013 at 11:20 pm

Maybe you missed April 1? Or maybe Google means “people like you”. People like me get J. Bradford DeLong, Joseph Stiglitz, Maurice Obstfeld
2. Peter Klein | 3 May 2013 at 11:51 pm

Jed, obviously your computer is infected with a horrible virus.
3. Rafe Champion | 4 May 2013 at 7:44 pm

Rafe Champion -> People also search for: Kilmeny Niland, W.W. Bartley, III, David Miller, D’Arcy Niland, Peter Munz, Ruth Park, Les Darcy, Joseph Agassi, Jeremy Shearmur, William Harold Hutt, John W. N. Watkins, David Stove, Ian Jarvie, Deborah Niland, Lawrence A. Boland, Bryan Magee, Alan Chalmers, PETER G. KLEIN, Michael Rush, John Hyde