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eatsshootsleaves
12/03/08

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By the way, y'all, Nixon wasn't the first to say "We are all Keynesians now." He was quoting Milton Friedman.
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Iceland Spar
12/03/08

@eatsshootsleaves: What! Really? And finally, all of my heroes are dead.
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eatsshootsleaves
12/03/08

@Iceland_Spar: He didn't mean what it seems like. He meant that we are all Keynesians because we all use the Keynesian language.

[www.mskousen.com]

Funnily enough, I initially learned this from Paul Krugman's blog.
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Iceland Spar
12/03/08

@eatsshootsleaves: and, sigh of relief. Hope goes on. And I will now accuse people of being "quasi-Keynesian" per the awesome quotes in that link.
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Steverino Begins
12/03/08

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The Zimroth article has a pretty thorough discussion of possibilities of C, A, and W. W = Wife is an interesting theory.
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iplaudius
12/03/08

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Similar to a much shorter document written by A.E. Housman* on a soujourn in Paris in 1932 (link).

* Housman - major classics scholar, minor Victorian poet, subject of 1998 Tom Stoppard play The Invention of Love.

Sorry, other than the gay-sex-diary connection, this is just not topical, not at all.
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unclevanya
12/03/08

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Here's to some hawt economic stimulus in the years to come! If the mammoth packages being paraded before us right now are any indication, it's going to be a wild ride.
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Smitros
12/03/08

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Did ADS depart or get executed?
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slainte_pants
12/03/08

@Smitros: Maybe he is just busy, these are precarious times. If you haven't heard, your face is melting.
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Smitros
12/03/08

@slainte_pants:
And I thought that was just the ancient Chinese herb.
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FracturedAcetabulum
12/03/08

@Smitros: suicide.

[gawker.com]

Suspect he'll be back in another form, though.
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
12/03/08

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Pareene: Do you cruise the calculated risk blog? We were just discussing hoarding and circle jerks.
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Rumpelstilskin
12/03/08

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He did have nice Cezannes too. Sigh.
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BullfightsOnAcid
12/03/08

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I can't even count the number of times I've performed M this week.
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NotChoinski
12/03/08

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Is this what we call Dick-Keynesian literature?
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contradicto
12/03/08

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So he is the Oscar Wilde of boring?
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phlox✔
12/03/08

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This is truly going to be the gayest (and hottest) administration evah. HUZZAH!
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American Dreamer
12/03/08

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Except for the war economy theory John Maynard Keynes continues to be complete bull.

I studied economics at Oxford and even at Oxford he is studied but widely reputed.

But I wasn't fully aware of the hot gay sex until now. Can we get someone to turn that into a full length movie?
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TheHonJudgeSmails
12/03/08

@Lucky in Love: Widely reputed, you say? I would dispute that word means what you think it means, among other things.
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phlox✔
12/03/08

@TheHonJudgeSmails: Disputiated?
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MissNormaDesmond
12/03/08

@TheHonJudgeSmails: Eh, it could just be a typo for refuted. Everybody has brain farts now and then.
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Sarcastro
12/03/08

@MissNormaDesmond: Or repudiated. Or a word that don't mean nothin', like looptid.
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TheHonJudgeSmails
12/03/08

@MissNormaDesmond: I prefer to imagine that this commenter is just a pompous ass.
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Btwbfdimho
12/03/08

@Lucky in Love: Reputed? In Spanish, reputo means super gay, so maybe he's using the right verb.
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MissNormaDesmond
12/03/08

@Btwbfdimho: Thank you! Ahora tengo una nueva palabra preferida.
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i'm a bottle
12/03/08

@Lucky in Love: Perfectly valid theories are used as ladders upon which one climbs to see the next true theory on the horizon, after which the ladder is repudiated. The ladder is wrong, but it was not wrong at the time the next ladder (theory) is being built. Strange, counterintuitive, cynical but completely true, look to Thomas Kuhn for more information on that.

And Keynes was at Cambridge, thus it is no wonder to me that he is "repudiated" at Oxford. Cambridge has always been far more Keynesian (read more left-wing), whereas U of C and the LSE have been more oriented towards economic liberalism (right-wing orthodoxy). Where does Oxford sit in this scheme? Ideas, thoughts?
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Iceland Spar
12/03/08

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Its posts like this in which ADS will be missed most. I'd like to think he would have (correctly) told us that Keyenes sucks and that we should all listen to Milton Friedman. And then everyone would attack him and he would be all economic and refute people point by point.

*sigh*
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TheHonJudgeSmails
12/03/08

@Iceland_Spar: But he would still be right!
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BadUncle
12/03/08

@Iceland_Spar: Where did he go?
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Colonel Mustard
12/03/08

@Iceland_Spar: Actually, he regularly brought up Keynes as the template for strong economic theory, if I recall correctly. I seem to recall more than one post of his where he espoused Keynesian principles.
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Iceland Spar
12/03/08

href="#c9240660">Lucky in Love: A Dismal Science, formerly Gawker's resident economist

@TheHonJudgeSmails: Agreed!

@BadUncle: He self-Ketched in protest at Sheila's being laid off I believe.

@Colonel Mustard: Really? ADS was a Keynsian? I'm just going to pretend that he said those crazy things in the same spirit as Nixon said we're all Kensians - the lying spirit.@
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Botswana Meat Commission FC
12/03/08

@Iceland_Spar:

Whoa. When the hell did that loveable capitalist pig bastard cut his own neck? Yesterday?

Come back, ADS. We need more Iggles fans around here.
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Colonel Mustard
12/03/08

@Iceland_Spar: Don't quote me! I could be wrong, as the mysteries of economic principles do not always make themselves known to me, but I do seem to recall one post in particular where he identified his leanings as "basically Keynesian".
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American Dreamer
12/03/08

@Colonel Mustard:

i have degrees in economics from yale and oxford and i studied law and economics at harvard

i'd be happy to substitute for ADS although i am no expert on keynes
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eatsshootsleaves
12/03/08

@Lucky in Love: I'm an undergraduate junior in political science at Boston University. But I've boned a lot of MIT guys, so I'd likewise be happy to replace ADS! Yay, prestige!

Now, let me tell you what's wrong with the financial derivatives. Also the financial integrals and the financial quadratic formulas. Also who had the bigger C, Keynes or Friedman. You learn these things.
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Iceland Spar
12/03/08

@Colonel Mustard: I would defer to you on this one, I had just assumed with his free market tendancy he would be anti-Keynes. I will chalk this up as another example that people rarely fit sterotypes, even in their economic beliefs.
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hypocriteoath
12/03/08

@Iceland_Spar: Keynes wasn't anti-free market... he just knew that govt intervention here and there can actually make it perform more efficiently [on an aggregate level] and benefit more parties.
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Iceland Spar
12/03/08

@hypocriteoath: I would agree that he isn't anti-free market, but I think it would be fair to call him more interventionalist at least than Van Mises or Freidman.

Though "In the long run, we're all dead" is probably one of greatest things ever said in economnics (besides all that econometricisy stuff and other things that help the economy grow).
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TheHonJudgeSmails
12/03/08

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"After a lengthy period during which rejection of his ideas of government intervention led us directly to financial ruin, he is suddenly back in favor."

Keynesian economics have been the dominant force, uninterrupted, in US economic policy since the 1930s. Guys like Friedman have been blips on the radar, who gently nudged the pendulum ever so slightly in the other direction.

Just saying.
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it takes a lot to laugh
12/03/08

@TheHonJudgeSmails: As Nixon said, "We are all Keynesians now."

But he was talking about the hot gay sex, of course.
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it takes a lot to laugh
12/03/08

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Hey, this is a repeat post! Is this what we have to look forward to?
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