Wednesday, September 15, 2010

I'm sure we can all think up examples, but here's mine...

Posted by dkuehn at 9:08 AM
- "physicists" (the title of the cartoon is "Physicists") = Austrians
- "complicated system" = business cycle
- "simple object" = readjustment of capital structure
- "complications I just thought of" = policy uncertainty, hyper-inflation (oops), inflation (not hearing quite so much of this anymore), high interest rates (ummmm...), OK maybe a little price rigidity... MAYBE
- "your field": macroeconomics (all ex post story telling, after all! you only really need micro)

Before this explodes into a "you don't understand" or "you need to read more" gripe-fest, I just want to note that I am annotating a one panel stick figure cartoon, which believe it or not does not constitute a formal critique of... well of anything.

Other annotation suggestions?

3 comments:

  1. AnonymousSeptember 15, 2010 at 2:50 PM

    Try reading something next time.

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  2. MattheusSeptember 16, 2010 at 7:56 PM

    We're all glad you find time out of your busy day to oversimplify Austrian economics. It's not like ET assaults Keynesians just for the sake of it...

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  3. dkuehnSeptember 17, 2010 at 5:18 AM

    1. I was actually joking about Austrian ECONOMISTS, not Austrian economics. There's a big difference.

    2. I am annotating a stick figure cartoon - get over it.

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