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Probably incredibly unreadable modelling thread | 200 comments (200 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

I'm not sure about that. You, Miguel, ATinNM, and others have helped to pull a lot of information back. Beyond discussions here at ET, I haven't really been involved in any economics-related activities, so it helps to keep my mind going.

Now if I could only get off my lazy ass long enough to read some of those textbooks....

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Thu Jun 15th, 2006 at 11:26:57 AM EST
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But you have the requisite knowledge of academic economics to properly put the whole thing in context.

guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jun 15th, 2006 at 11:29:50 AM EST
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You assume that I'm able to keep my thoughts together for a long-enough period to allow me to do that. I must remind you that flattery will get you nowhere. ;)

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Thu Jun 15th, 2006 at 11:34:34 AM EST
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Reading original works and figuring things out for yourself are more fun and more productive than reading textbooks. You can make a killing selling those to unsuspecting undergraduates ;-)

guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jun 15th, 2006 at 11:31:10 AM EST
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I agree about the original works. I got more out of Keynes and Friedman than I ever got out of a textbook.

And, yes, there is big money in textbooks, if the author is well known and can, therefore, convince other professors to assign it to students. I'm sure Krugman, Mankiw and Romer have earned plenty on textbooks, alone.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Thu Jun 15th, 2006 at 11:43:16 AM EST
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I was talking about the second-hand market.

guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jun 15th, 2006 at 11:45:09 AM EST
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Oh, the second-hand market is fantastic for all of the textbook stores around here (all two of them). I was under the impression that collusion was illegal, but I suppose it is not when the university is one of the parties that benefit from it.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Thu Jun 15th, 2006 at 11:51:55 AM EST
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Write it then: I'll complain if I think you missed anything! I really want the point that free-trade theory tells you what could happen, not what must happen included.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu Jun 15th, 2006 at 11:32:45 AM EST
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Write it then: I'll complain if I think you missed anything!

Fair enough. Will do.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Thu Jun 15th, 2006 at 11:36:28 AM EST
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I'll complain if you forget Migeru's position. </snark>

guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jun 15th, 2006 at 11:49:12 AM EST
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"Migeru hates freedom." How's that? :D

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Thu Jun 15th, 2006 at 11:53:02 AM EST
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Perfect.

guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jun 15th, 2006 at 11:53:38 AM EST
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Ah, the debate tactics I've learned in the Era of Bush.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Thu Jun 15th, 2006 at 11:55:06 AM EST
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