It's funny. The pundits will occasionally bring up Harry Truman's statement that "All my economic advisors say, 'One the one hand _, and on the other hand _.' Someone give me a one-handed economist." And I always think, "Yeah, and we have a word for one-handed economists: Frauds." Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
He's a weird one in the history books. One of the most hated presidents in history during his time, yet he's now looked upon as a true maverick and one of the all-time greats. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
I would REALLY love to see a discussion of it here among people who actually have some economics background. The insights are pretty fascinating, but the book def. has an agenda (hey, that I agree with) so I'm really interested to know what others think of it. "Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
I'm planning to go back to the reviews in the FT and the Economist I saw a while back and do a compare. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes