27
Jan
2012
Irony Alert
I was reading my favorite Keynesian’s blog today, and happened to glance at the right side, where it has links to his actual NYT columns. Here were the blurbs for his second- and third-most recent ones:
Taxes at the Top
By PAUL KRUGMAN
As Mitt Romney dances around calls for him to release his tax returns, a question about U.S. tax policy comes up: Why do the rich bear a startlingly light tax burden?How Fares the Dream?
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Martin Luther King would see a nation that judges people by the size of their paychecks.
I’m sure he can find a metric that will disprove the hypocracy.
Of all his hypocracy, his beard is the most evident. Think of all the jobs he’s killing by saving that hair on his face!
combine him with Reich and Bernanke and you have a shaving glut that threatens the global financial system!!
Seriously, is there some unwritten rule that any economist who works or campaigns for the Fed has to grow out their beard?
hypocracy? that was funny
It was almost as funny as capitalizing.
no, not that funny
Yes, it was even more funny.
no way.
humour and economics are definetely not your thing.
Maybe he should take up plagiarizing.
anything would be better than his failed attempts at economics and humour.
you should take up plagiarizing as well. there is no merit in trying to be an original idiot.
There is definitely no merit in being an unoriginal plagiarizing idiot.
Then why am I laughing at you and why do I know more economics than you?
The solution to this riddle seems thus: Krugs isn’t judging Romney personally, but evaluating the low tax rate as a public policy problem; just like one can say that an elderly driver losing her vision is a hazard on the road without stripping her value as a human being, Krugman can say that an ill-taxed Mitt is a matter of national economic security.
I thought I was your favorite Keynesian!
I thought you weren’t a Keynesian! You’re a free-market economist, and that excludes Keynesian in my book. 🙂
Winner!
I think you have a Krugman addiction problem. Have you considered a week long rehab?
As far as I saw you are having a class conflict addiction problem. So why not consider a rehab yourself? I’d recommend to start with Carl Menger’s Principles of Economics:
http://mises.org/Books/Mengerprinciples.pdf
Get well soon! 😉
I think you have an Austrian economics addiction problem:
http://unlearningeconomics.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/some-scattered-thoughts-on-austrian-economics/
Have you considered looking in the mirror and asking if you’re practising what you’re preaching?
I think you two have a repeating-only-modestly-funny-comments addiction problem.
I think you have a falsely-believing-in-your-usefulness problem.
Oh he’s useful alright, but not in the way he probably thinks.
Daniel,
🙂
Mine was actually meant serious. Read the exchange between UnlearningEcon and Madmiser in the comments there:
http://unlearningeconomics.wordpress.com/2011/12/26/the-different-types-of-libertarian/
And finally the conclusion of Unlearning there:
http://unlearningeconomics.wordpress.com/
Sorry the second link is not complete. It should be:
http://unlearningeconomics.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/governments-markets-and-class-and-libertarians/
Great…
This post is at the wrong place currently because my former post, to which I replied, is waiting for moderation…
modestly? how generous of you
1. It seems clear from his blog that Mr. Unlearn has never learned the central Austrian concept of economic calculation, just like his hero, the Imperious Lord Keynes. He cannot claim to unlearn what he refuses to learn in the first place.
2. The rich bear a startlingly light tax burden because were a nation that judges people by the size of their paychecks. But the rich pay a huge share of the tax burden and the US has about the highest corporate tax rate in the world.
Yes I have a Krugman addiction problem, but I need the government to step in and outlaw Krugman completely because that’s the only way I can be saved from myself. You might find one or two people huddled together to read a bit of Krugman in some shadowy back alley but sending in heavily armed police should sort out those recalcitrant few.
LOL
Unlearning, have you seen my paper on Hayek vs. Sraffa? It was the craziest thing… David Glasner at his blog kept telling me Hayek was right, and I kept telling him no, Sraffa was. It was like the Star Trek when Kirk turned evil.