Comments on: Dumb it up, Tyler!

By: hi

hi — Tue, 09 Dec 2003 18:29:41 +0000

By: Curtiss Leung

Curtiss Leung — Fri, 01 Aug 2003 17:59:55 +0000

Either you’re not a ponce, or my browser is broken, ‘cause I don’t see the umlaut. But if Brad DeLong can’t understand the difference between post-Keynesianism and post-Autrianism, we’ve got bigger problems.

By: dsquared

dsquared — Fri, 01 Aug 2003 06:45:20 +0000

Nobody really understands post-Keynesianism except Barkley Rosser and he ain’t telling …

By: Brad DeLong

Brad DeLong — Thu, 31 Jul 2003 21:08:33 +0000

I’m now worried because I no longer understand the difference between post-Keynesianism and post-Austrianism… And if you are not a ponce, why doesn’t my movable type installation put an umlaut over the i?

By: Ratherworried

Ratherworried — Thu, 31 Jul 2003 19:57:10 +0000

I now completely understand why I am an attorney and not an economist. There briefly was some dawning of understanding but I went and looked at a Keynesian table that was supposed to explain away all of my confusion and it just added to it.

By: Hipocrite

Hipocrite — Thu, 31 Jul 2003 14:23:59 +0000

Look, why not just point to the major error – Random walks do not mean unpredictable, they mean that the future depends only on the present and not the past.

By: dsquared

dsquared — Thu, 31 Jul 2003 11:36:21 +0000

Hmmmm … I’ll try and explain post-Keynesianism one day, but it’s considerably easier to slag off someone else’s views than to say what you believe yourself, and that’s why I do it. I’ve never really been able to work out what I believe about free trade. Sawicky’s your man.

By: WillieStyle

WillieStyle — Thu, 31 Jul 2003 07:22:55 +0000

But seriously good job explaining neoAustrianism to a layman like myself. However, you didn’t explain precisely how you are a Post-Keynesian or what in bloody hell a Post-Keynesian is and why it is in anyway similar to (but profoundly different from) a neoAustrian. P.S. If you ever do a post on free trade, there are a few questions on the Ricardian model of comparative advantage I’d like to ask you.

By: WillieStyle

WillieStyle — Thu, 31 Jul 2003 07:18:17 +0000

Ponce.

By: dsquared

dsquared — Wed, 30 Jul 2003 22:02:01 +0000

Just in case anyone thinks I’m more of a ponce than I actually am, I’d like to point out that Movable Type automatically puts that umlaut over the “i” of “naive”, and there is no sense in which I pored over Unicode tables for hours just in order to be pretentious. I realise it’s the sort of thing I’m quite likely to do, but I didn’t in fact do it.