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asmith
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 Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 9:24 am Post subject: Who are your favorite economists? |
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| I have three. Gerald Celente, Peter Schiff, and Max kaiser. I also like larry rogers. Why don't you google them and drop all your red state v. blue state crappola? |
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On the other hand
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| Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 9:27 am Post subject: |
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| I like John Kenneth Galbraith because he had that craggy, taciturn Scottish-Canadian academic air about him. |
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Sergio Stefanuto
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| Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 5:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Gotta be Henry Hazlitt and Thomas Sowell. |
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Koveras
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| Hans-Hermann Hoppe - libertarian, Conservative, historical revisionist. |
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bacasper
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| A lot of what Karl Marx said about a decadent capitalism in its last throes seems to be bearing fruit now. |
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RJjr
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catchshime
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not so much an "economist" by trade, but could sure as hell be one with the amount he knows:
Ron Paul |
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jaykimf
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| Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 8:19 am Post subject: |
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| Karl Marx, Thorstein Veblen, Irving Fisher, Keynes and Paul Krugman. |
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Rusty Shackleford
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Sowell, Schiff, Mises, Hazlitt, Stossell(not really an economist), George Will(ditto), Mankiw(but not all that wacky negative interest rates mumbo jumbo he drones on about), Friedman. Keynes has made so many valuable contributions to our understanding but his macroeconomic theory enjoys far too much influence.
Particularly dislike Krugman and Ezra Klein(although he doesn't seem to know that much about economics). |
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mises
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| Rusty Shackleford wrote: |
Particularly dislike Krugman and Ezra Klein(although he doesn't seem to know that much about economics). |
Yeah, agree. I can't really say who I like but I certainly know which ones I dislike. PK is #1.
OTOH, you might like his son James K. Galbraith too:
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/10242008/profile.html
I follow him fairly closely. He's on the left and focuses strongly on direct inequality, without inserting a wall of identity politics. I appreciate that. |
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kiknkorea
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| Thomas Sowell, Murray Rothbard, Edward Prescott, and Gary Becker. |
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mises
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| Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 7:15 am Post subject: |
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| I can't really say who I like |
Well, I'll give it a go. Andy Xie (mucho). David Rosenberg. Mises. Rothbard. The "Austrians". Anybody is has demonstrated a pattern of accuracy and independence. Stephen S. Roach.
Peter Schiff, Ron Paul, Jim Rodgers et al are not really economists. I don't really know what an economist is anymore. But they've demonstrated a pattern of accuracy and extreme independence. |
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On the other hand
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| I follow him fairly closely. He's on the left and focuses strongly on direct inequality, without inserting a wall of identity politics. I appreciate that. |
Thanks Mises. I've read more by his brother, Peter, who is a diplomat and writes on foreign policy. He's the guy who argued for the partition of Iraq in the New York Review Of Books. |
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RJjr
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| Bill Fleckenstein is good. |
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RJjr
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| Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 12:55 pm Post subject: Re: Who are your favorite economists? |
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| asmith wrote: |
| I have three. Gerald Celente, Peter Schiff, and Max kaiser. I also like larry rogers. Why don't you google them and drop all your red state v. blue state crappola? |
I like those three also. They're certainly the most entertaining. Celente is the boldest/scariest, Kaiser is the funniest, and Schiff is the most articulate. Have you noticed how Kaiser and his girlfriend look stoned in their videos, especially the ones they film at home? Maybe if they would pass the bong to some of the Nobel prize or Ivy League economists, maybe those guys would become more lucid and perhaps get something right eventually. |
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