January 2009
9 posts
“During my first year of graduate school I read countless empirical and...”
– Paul knows all | Free exchange | Economist.com
Post-ironic linguistics
Appending YEAH to your instant-messaged description of an employment opportunity conveys quite nicely a sort of generationally-prototypical ambivalence which is somehow much more difficult to communicate verbally.
“So what’s the point of saying “Ha! This doesn’t fit my definition of a liquidity...”
– The latter sentence is one I find myself uttering all too often these days.
What’s in a name? - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com
An unprovoked, ad hominem, straw man attack on...
(First in a series. If I know myself, at least.)
To all you commie pinko PACS, DS, and “distributive justice” PEIS majors, listen up:
Economics, as a methodological approach, functions differently from yours.
Economists assume things to be fixed which vary in reality, then figure out, given such fixed elements of a system, what the outcome would be. Let’s take coffee prices...
“AAA-rating
1) A guarantee of financial soundness, that the AAA-rated product...”
– Josh Reviews Everything: The Alternate Finance Crisis Glossary
“The basic question Keynes asked was: How do rational people behave under...”
– The Way We Live Now - The Remedist - NYTimes.com
Economic Scene - Insights Both Fresh and Tested -... →
David Leonhardt’s requisite reading for the post-post-Keynesian financial crisis.