Comments on: Hustlenomics? http://crookedtimber.org/2007/09/01/hustlenomics/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:58:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: engels http://crookedtimber.org/2007/09/01/hustlenomics/comment-page-1/#comment-209175 engels Sat, 01 Sep 2007 20:48:51 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/09/01/hustlenomics/#comment-209175 My four-year-old cousin uses the word "gavagai" to mean rabbit, when, as everyone knows, it really means <a href="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/reference/#NegVieRef" rel="nofollow">"undetached rabbit part"</a>. My four-year-old cousin uses the word “gavagai” to mean rabbit, when, as everyone knows, it really means “undetached rabbit part”.

]]> By: dsquared http://crookedtimber.org/2007/09/01/hustlenomics/comment-page-1/#comment-209174 dsquared Sat, 01 Sep 2007 20:46:09 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/09/01/hustlenomics/#comment-209174 hmmm, maybe there's a controversy within hustlernomics between the neo-classical hustleronomists and heterodox thuggonomists. hmmm, maybe there’s a controversy within hustlernomics between the neo-classical hustleronomists and heterodox thuggonomists.

]]> By: Chris Bertram http://crookedtimber.org/2007/09/01/hustlenomics/comment-page-1/#comment-209173 Chris Bertram Sat, 01 Sep 2007 19:29:20 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/09/01/hustlenomics/#comment-209173 Former Chelsea player and current Leeds manager Denis Wise has to be the leading microthuggonomist. Former Chelsea player and current Leeds manager Denis Wise has to be the leading microthuggonomist.

]]> By: Rich B. http://crookedtimber.org/2007/09/01/hustlenomics/comment-page-1/#comment-209168 Rich B. Sat, 01 Sep 2007 18:11:18 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/09/01/hustlenomics/#comment-209168 My four year old daughter recently started to word "cube" to be "frozen", due to a misunderstanding of what part of the word "ice cube" referred to which characteristic of the item. If you think about it, it kind of makes 4-year-old-logical sense. Is there a term for things like that, or the use of --nomics as a suffix, where exactly the wrong part of the word or phrase gets assigned the meaning? My four year old daughter recently started to word “cube” to be “frozen”, due to a misunderstanding of what part of the word “ice cube” referred to which characteristic of the item. If you think about it, it kind of makes 4-year-old-logical sense.

Is there a term for things like that, or the use of—nomics as a suffix, where exactly the wrong part of the word or phrase gets assigned the meaning?

]]> By: dsquared http://crookedtimber.org/2007/09/01/hustlenomics/comment-page-1/#comment-209167 dsquared Sat, 01 Sep 2007 17:56:02 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/09/01/hustlenomics/#comment-209167 <a href="http://music.yahoo.com/track/2091625" rel="nofollow">Thuggonomics</a> certainly predated the Levitt/Dubner book (I remember idly wondering whether there were subfields of international thuggonomics, macrothuggonomics, thuggometrics, etc), so this might too. Thuggonomics certainly predated the Levitt/Dubner book (I remember idly wondering whether there were subfields of international thuggonomics, macrothuggonomics, thuggometrics, etc), so this might too.

]]> By: almostinfamous http://crookedtimber.org/2007/09/01/hustlenomics/comment-page-1/#comment-209162 almostinfamous Sat, 01 Sep 2007 16:22:47 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/09/01/hustlenomics/#comment-209162 i guess this is the 'max power' way of economics then? (for non-simpson geeks, the meaning: Homer: From now on, there are three ways to do things: the right way, the wrong way, and the Max Power way. Bart: Isn't that just the wrong way? Homer: Yeah, but faster! ) i guess this is the ‘max power’ way of economics then?

(for non-simpson geeks, the meaning:

Homer: From now on, there are three ways to do things: the right way, the wrong way, and the Max Power way.

Bart: Isn’t that just the wrong way?
Homer: Yeah, but faster! )

]]> By: arthur http://crookedtimber.org/2007/09/01/hustlenomics/comment-page-1/#comment-209137 arthur Sat, 01 Sep 2007 05:21:10 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/09/01/hustlenomics/#comment-209137 Whoa, that made even less sense than the crime and abortion paper. Whoa, that made even less sense than the crime and abortion paper.

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