Best Line I've Read in a While

BWAAAAAAAAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAH, that is soo true.

"his assistant Nicky Kaldor that ‘Allied bombing..by destroying civilian enterprises, released labour for the [German] war effort’": I'd always taken that argument at face value, but now that I know that Kaldor and Galbraith were its proponents, ah hae ma doots, as Galbraith might not have said.

It's a darned shame economics has had such a uniformly drab image in the hearts and minds of so many.

What's the deal? Type M versus Type C? No bad guy/good guy in economics = snoozefest?

>It's a darned shame economics has had such a uniformly drab image in the hearts and minds of so many.

I am convinced that its just a matter of a good writer with a very sensible approach writing a book that combines *actual* economics (not political jibberish) with common sense and readability bringing another economic renaissance; Milton Freedman, Reagan and the libertarians brought one, but another is needed to help it last through this period with the current distracted public.

Ive often wondered if Marxism's only function as an economic ideology is to try and inject politics into a science which is largely a political. If you are a political person then classical and even neo-classical economic theory is a huge road block. If the arguments contained within those doctrines is true then politics is ultimately useless as an ideology of progression. Therefore Marxist arguments that economic teaching is a way to enforce the dominant ideology is largely unsurprising.

I hear from the older generation that this kind of crassness was quite typical of LBJ. Apparently, he liked to make people follow him into the bathroom and keep them talking to him while he did number 2. He’d say something like “keep talking, I’m just going to take a dump here in the stall”.