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I’ve written about the problems with the “push-a-button, take-a-pill model of science,” but . . . I’ve never seen it taken so literally! As long as there are people out there making such claims, and other people applauding these claims, and yet other people paying the bills for all this, I’m glad that there are also people like Ed Yong who are willing to point out that the emperor has no clothes. Mockery is our superpower. Time for some mockery of those holding onto "expansionary austerity, the confusion of issuer and users, the government as household or firm analogy, loanable funds, "crowding out," Barro's version of Ricardian equivalence, the intertemporal budget constraint, NAIRU, debt phobia, deficit hysteria, and the like, not to mention assuming "utility" as revealed preference,
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I’ve written about the problems with the “push-a-button, take-a-pill model of science,” but . . . I’ve never seen it taken so literally! As long as there are people out there making such claims, and other people applauding these claims, and yet other people paying the bills for all this, I’m glad that there are also people like Ed Yong who are willing to point out that the emperor has no clothes. Mockery is our superpower. Time for some mockery of those holding onto "expansionary austerity, the confusion of issuer and users, the government as household or firm analogy, loanable funds, "crowding out," Barro's version of Ricardian equivalence, the intertemporal budget constraint, NAIRU, debt phobia, deficit hysteria, and the like, not to mention assuming "utility" as revealed preference,
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I’ve written about the problems with the “push-a-button, take-a-pill model of science,” but . . . I’ve never seen it taken so literally!
As long as there are people out there making such claims, and other people applauding these claims, and yet other people paying the bills for all this, I’m glad that there are also people like Ed Yong who are willing to point out that the emperor has no clothes.
Mockery is our superpower.Time for some mockery of those holding onto "expansionary austerity, the confusion of issuer and users, the government as household or firm analogy, loanable funds, "crowding out," Barro's version of Ricardian equivalence, the intertemporal budget constraint, NAIRU, debt phobia, deficit hysteria, and the like, not to mention assuming "utility" as revealed preference, ergodicity, equilibrium, and maximization? You know, the myths and conventional shibboleths.
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