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BadEconomics Discussion Thread, 27 September 2015 (self.badeconomics)

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[–]wshanahan 4ポイント5ポイント  (6子コメント)

Anybody else see this debate between David Friedman and Robert Murphy? I think Friedman obviously won and is certainly less bad economics than Murphy.

[–]say_wot_againConfirmed for Google bigwig 8ポイント9ポイント  (4子コメント)

is certainly less bad economics than Murphy

Talk about damning with faint praise.

[–]wumbotarianmodeled as if Noah Smith was a can opener 4ポイント5ポイント  (1子コメント)

Unfortunately David has gotten pretty unscientific. He's an ardent climate science "skeptic". I still like him a lot, as my short conversations with him were tons of fun, but it really sticks in my craw that he won't accept climate science on climate change.

[–]MyShitsFuckedDown2Keynesism-Leninism 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I get the feeling that some of it's just to puff up his right-wing credentials for the AnCao crowd who'll treat his work like the bible.

[–]EsoteriCola"I have some serious economics training" 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

I have a weird kind of respect for David Friedman mainly because I think he's among the less nutty of the Ancap crowd and one of the only Ancaps with a decent level of self-awareness, he also doesn't claim his ideas would work perfectly and more importantly isn't an Austrian.

There's also this video where he basically spells out some major issues with deontological libertarianism and basically admits that the theory falls completely flat in some areas and that there are no solutions to arguments he brings up, it's really worth a watch.

[–]wshanahan 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I certainly wouldn't say he's good macro economics but at least he admits that he's not a macro economist.

[–]wumbotarianmodeled as if Noah Smith was a can opener 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

David keeps knocking stuff over.

I personally like the one dude who took Murphy to task wrt non-Euclidean geometry. That was fun - Murphy had like nothing substantial to offer but David was right that theory can show one sort of argument as incoherent but it doesn't answer all questions.

I really, really, really lament the fact that David didn't do more in economics. I think he really could've done some good stuff. Or at least go Stigler's son's route and be successful in a different area (Stigler's son did statistics - I wonder what David could've done in physics).

[–]EsoteriCola"I have some serious economics training" 3ポイント4ポイント  (2子コメント)

The UK's new hard left shadow chancellor has recently suggested pushing for a Financial Transaction Tax unironically named the 'Robin Hood Tax', what effects do you think this kind of a tax could have?

[–]Lambchops_Legion 2ポイント3ポイント  (1子コメント)

Decreased liquidity first and foremost. The public never learned or cared to learn about 2007/08.

[–]fmn13Canadian Labor Reserves 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

All I need to know, I learned from Occupy Wall Street!

[–]Zexy_Bastard 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Anyone have advice for a university interview, or resources they can recommend? Apparently it involves a lot of graph drawing and game theory.