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Rick Eichhorn Going through my back issues of the Taipei Times and I came across this nice piece.
www.taipeitimes.com
Ten Things on Which Matt Taibbi Really Does Not Know What He Is Talking About - J. Bradford DeLong's
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It's hard to know how seriously one is supposed to take a Matt Taibbi who begins: >Obama's Big Sellout: Barack Obama ran for president as a man of the people, standing up to Wall Street as the global economy melted down in that fateful fall of 2008. ...
Rick Eichhorn And a corollary: ``We'' will fight to the proverbial death to be on the right side, where right means not that you are propagating truth, but that you won the argument by whatever means - where invoking the absurd (Nazis, Communists, Tyrants, Money-Printers, etc.) which causes your ``opponent'' to give up, is consider...ed winning. Then we have Krugman's Godwin's Law.
Rick Eichhorn Nice. I thought Godwin's law was something else, but oh well. Who is ``we'', though. I think we need a new law that generates this version of Godwin's law: Since the MB of figuring out on ``our'' own are much less than the associated MC, ``we'' will just go with the argument being made by whomever ``we'' like the mo...st, for whatever reason.
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com
Comparisons that mean you've lost the argument.
Rick Eichhorn $$ (X^{/}X)^{-1} X^{/} Y $$
Rick Eichhorn Stationarity vs. Nonstationarity this morning, then the Veblenian Dichotomy this afternoon.
Rick Eichhorn LaTeX help session in the library (lower level) tomorrow (11/6) at 3:00 PM.
I love that the "free marketeers" on Morning Joe were just up in arms that book prices are too low and poor John Grisham won't make very much money anymore. Competition. Say it with me. Competition. The marginal benefit to society of legal thrillers is downward sloping...
Rick Eichhorn Let's think about the arguments in this piece.
www.cnn.com
A growing number of Americans are becoming aware of the Federal Reserve System, what it is, how it has precipitated our financial crisis, and how it continues to pursue policies that delay economic recovery and weaken the dollar.
Rick Eichhorn I hadn't seen this until now. ``It took a lot of work to make it obvious.'' Nice.
nobelprize.org
Nobelprize.org, Official web site of the Nobel Foundation. Portrait of the 2008 Laureate in Economics (8 minutes)A look at the life and work of Paul Krugman, 2008 Economics Laureate.
Rick Eichhorn Looks like I lose again. But so did everyone else. This is the first woman to win an Econ Nobel. Joan Robinson should have gotten one, but was snubbed. Williamson was on some people's lists.
nobelprize.org
Rick Eichhorn Starting to think P.Romer is premature, but who else is on deck? Maybe Fama, but it'd be a weird year to award the efficient market hypothesis. Shiller, too soon. Maybe in 5 years. Gali, could be. This is looking better. Taylor - not a chance. Probably will wind up being someone not on the radar.
Rick Eichhorn Two additional entries to the nobel (econ) pool.
