Challenging Group Thinking Economists on Budget Deficits and the Dollar
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on January 5th, 2009 5:31 am by HL
Challenging Group Thinking Economists on Budget Deficits and the Dollar
Virtually the whole economics profession somehow managed to overlook the largest housing bubble in the history of the world. Remarkably, few, if any, economists were fired or even demoted for their extraordinary incompetence. Unlike dishwashers and factory workers, economists are…
Can There Be Politics in Tragedy? Or in Gaza?
I’m immersed in long-range writing and leave tomorrow for six months in Berlin, but the Gaza war provokes me to share a brilliant essay by Darry Li, a doctoral student in anthropology and Middle East Studies at Harvard and a…
Delusions, cont’d
“Hamas legislators won a democratic majority in elections four years ago.” –Ethan Bronner, NYT online, Jan. 3. “Eighteen months ago, Hamas took over the Gaza Strip in a coup.” –George W. Bush, radio address, Jan. 3. I was just saying…