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You'll get no disagreement from me on that, although appearances on television don't get you tenure, and it's a lot easier for established figures like Krugman and Stiglitz to do so.

I'd point out, too, that you could level the same criticism, albeit not to the same degree, at climate scientists here.  And the economists are at least active in the blogosphere in a more public way.

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

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Thu Sep 18th, 2008 at 12:27:10 PM EST
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Definitely true about the climate scientists, but the voodoo economists have been pissing me off for longer... ;-)
by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Thu Sep 18th, 2008 at 12:37:14 PM EST
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Try being taught by them in the intro classes.  Then we'll talk about who can claim to get pissed at them properly. ;)

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Thu Sep 18th, 2008 at 12:38:59 PM EST
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