“When Detroit gives us lemons, we give them billions of dollars” Jon Stewart
Archive for March, 2009
Lemon Aid
Posted in Uncategorized on March 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Responsibility
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Comics on March 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Whither History of Economic Thought?
Posted in Uncategorized on March 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Over at Adam Smith’s Lost Legacy (h/t Mark Thoma), Gavin Smith posts about how the discipline of economics has evolved in such a way that the relevance of its own history is in question. I’ve obviously been posting a lot about these sorts of questions in the last few months, so I’ll jump at this [...]
A Violent Downturn
Posted in Uncategorized on March 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This article investigates the relationship between the economic crisis and the recent spat of mass-killings, muder-suicides, and upsurges in domestic violence claims. one study released Monday in Florida finds a link between domestic violence and economic tragedies like job loss and foreclosures. The Sunshine State saw an almost 40 percent jump in demand for domestic-violence [...]
Small Enough to Fail
Posted in Uncategorized on March 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Some Links
Posted in Uncategorized on March 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
No time to post (thesis draft due tomorrow). Here are some links to keep your cognitive functions running this Sunday afternoon: EV: “What Use is Economic Theory” Theory of the Mind EV: Mathematical Formalism in Economics
Springtime for Mao
Posted in Uncategorized on March 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
According to the International Herald Tribune, China is planning to stage a musical version of Karl Marx’s Das Kapital to entertain as well as educate the masses on Marxist Theory. They have even hired an economist from Shanghai’s Fudan University as a consultant for the musical. Be sure to keep an eye out for it on Broadway. [...]
A Little Fun With Rhetoric
Posted in Uncategorized on March 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Compare and contrast… Paul Krugman in today’s NYTimes But it has become increasingly clear over the past few days that top officials in the Obama administration are still in the grip of the market mystique. They still believe in the magic of the financial marketplace and in the prowess of the wizards who perform that [...]
“Will Unload Toxic Assets For Bonus”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Comics on March 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Why do you build me up, Mark Thoma, baby…
Posted in Uncategorized on March 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
just to let me down and mess me around? Mark Thoma has a followup to his earlier excerpt post of the article I posted below. When it showed up in my Reader, I got all excited and such. But, like Tony Macauly of The Foundations, I feel a little used. Let me preface this by [...]
