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Re:Things Economists Agree On by sandGorgon on Saturday October 30, 2010 @09:03AM (#1850778)
do you have a blog ?

seriously, this was a superbly informative rant.

Re:Things Economists Agree On by jacoblyles on Saturday October 30, 2010 @03:07PM (#1851545)
The author is a crackpot. If you enjoyed this, there are thousands of crackpot blogs in this style. The style includes, but is not limited to, emphasizing random words in a sentence, inventing neologisms for people he disagrees with, and expressing extremely populist views.

The fact is that more people have risen out of poverty in the last 50 years than in the entire previous history of the world, largely due to economic globalization. And the average wealth of an American has also increased greatly.

The author is full of the excrement of male cattle. I hope he is getting upvotes for the reasonable critiques he makes at the beginning of his wall of text and not the dishonest crap at the bottom.

Re:Things Economists Agree On by gxti on Saturday October 30, 2010 @04:43PM (#1851767)
It's interesting to see how people react to walls of text with significantly less critical thinking than they do to shorter posts. I will admit that I was briefly under his spell as well, mostly because reading it all is quite fatiguing. It's also interesting to see that the author seems to write walls of text exclusively.
Re:Things Economists Agree On by blasdel on Monday November 01, 2010 @06:55AM (#1855995)
If you loved this you'd love http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/

The older stuff is pretty stellar, I wrote an post on Metafilter about it a few years ago: http://www.metafilter.com/66006/The-Unqualified-Reservations...