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Monthly Archives: July 2013
The Gold Bug Song
Here’s a song I wrote about gold bugs when I was supposed to be doing work today. Yes, I know the quality is pretty crap and I should probably stick to my day job. But regardless.
The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: Science Versus Its Nameless Rival
In response to my previous post a commenter on a private group I’m engaged with said that I must have fallen on the side of Michel Foucault in the famous Foucault-Chomsky debate. This is most certainly true and perhaps this … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy
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Google Books NGram Viewer
Google Books have a new tool that lets you search the incidence in the appearance of words in their massive archive, This, I think, is one of the most important historical tools to be made free for public use in … Continue reading
Posted in Media/Journalism, Philosophy
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Kant and His Categories Versus Mises and His Praxeology
You won’t see me dealing with the Austrian School of economics much on this blog. I wrote a long essay on them before and I think it says almost as much as needs to be said; namely, that the Austrians … Continue reading
Posted in Economic Theory, Philosophy
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Infinite Time: Why the Long-Run in Economics is Metaphysics
Matias Vernengo has a very interesting post on the long-run and the short-run in economics. As he says, the long-run and short-run are just thought experiments (he calls them “methodological tools”). So, the long-run is an imagined period when all … Continue reading
Posted in Economic Theory, Philosophy
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Is Paul Krugman the Left’s Milton Friedman and Should We Argue With Him?
In response to my previous post on Paul Krugman I got two negative responses; they are the two negative responses I always get when I criticise Krugman. One is from what I call the Krugtrons. These are the people who … Continue reading
Posted in Economic Theory, Politics
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Karl Marx’s Conspiracy Theories
Yesterday I was debating the author of the post I criticised which used what I think to be Marx’s faulty argument regarding the Irish famine and my attention was brought to a footnote that I had missed when I read … Continue reading
Posted in Economic History, Media/Journalism
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Round and Round We Go: Krugman-Magoo Strikes Again!
Here we go again. Paul Krugman has made another, erm, innovative discovery. Apparently, Krugman has just discovered that when government deficits rise interest rates may not rise at all, indeed there may be a tendency for them to fall. Think … Continue reading
Posted in Economic Theory, Media/Journalism
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Metacritique of Dogmatic Reason: Johann Georg Hamann
Lord Keynes of the Social Democracy for the 21st Century blog has been making my life difficult recently. He’s been making me leave rather curt replies to what appear to be his knee-jerk criticisms of Freud — which I don’t … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy
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Even the Statisticians Are Highly Dubious of Applying Their Methods in Economics!
Lars Syll just ran a rather amusing quote from a handbook on mathematical statistics in which the author — a mathematical statistician — lays out all the cop-out arguments used by those who apply these methods in a dubious manner … Continue reading
Posted in Economic Theory, Philosophy
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Fixing the Economists 