It might be worth noting that Bill's original complaint concerned not
amateurs generally, but NEWS MEDIA reporters and anchors.
It is quite possible that the average economics ability of news media
people is lower than the average economics ability of other
non-economists. This has been
In a message dated 1/9/03 9:49:18 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hilarious! I'd already killfiled AdmrlLocke, so I hadn't read his first
message. Love your answer though.
Wow, I had no idea that people on the list held me in such contempt, or
indeed in contempt at all. What sin or sins
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...shall I just unsubscribe then?
No. Although when you go on about statists you do
sound a little like Marxists when they go on about
captialists. :)
-jsh
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He wrote a letter, but did not post it because he
In a message dated 1/10/03 1:53:07 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
when you go on about statists you do
sound a little like Marxists when they go on about
captialists. :)
-jsh
I used statist-liberal and statist media to distinguish the adherents of
big government from classical liberals.
In a message dated 1/10/03 5:07:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Please take these discussions of personalities off-list. Thanks!
Especially given that it's my personality people were discussing, I
wholeheartedly concur. It's bad enough to have to live with my personality
24/7 without
In a message dated 1/8/03 4:51:38 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Mises said that everyone must learn economics because public policy is
set by public opinion. It's an unrealistic demand, but it might be
warranted, absent the death of democracy.
My old economics mentor at University of Colorado
Fred Foldvary a *crit :
one is a
better economist if one knows some law, history, geography, literature,
political science, and philosophy. And besides his specialty, a good
economist should know some history of thought, economic history, and
something about the various schools of
Amateurs and economics? As I recall, in the General Theory, towards the
end of the book, Keynes called for, or came close to calling for,
nationalization of business investment. If implemented, the proposal would
have quickly created an out-and-out socialist system, with disastrous
Coverage and bad economics
Yes, indeed I was informed recently that I recieved an A- instead of an A
in
one of my PhD courses because I include too much historical content in my
exam answers. I suppose there's no better way to protect faulty theory
than
to ignore the lessons of economic history
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Date: Thursday, January 09, 2003 7:41 AM
Subject: Re: News Coverage and bad economics
Yes, indeed I was informed recently that I recieved an A- instead of an A
in
one of my PhD courses
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