12/28/2005

Major Source of Global Warming Discovered On The Border Line

Excessive Hot Air Detected!
Terminal Boredom Reigns Supreme!!
Intellectual fraud melts down!
spiritofpublicus reruns his post of intellectual fraud




"A conservative is someone who admires radicals a century after they're dead."

"If you're not confused by economics, you're not paying attention."

"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, and that has long been sufficient for any government."


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John Kenneth Galbraith said:
"There is an old saying, or should be, that it is a wise economist who recognizes the scope of his own generalizations."
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John Maynard Keynes said:
"Unlike physics, for example, such parts of the bare bones of economic theory as are expressible in mathematical form are extremely easy compared with the economic interpretation of the complex and incompletely known facts of experience, and lead one a very little way towards establishing useful results."
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Paul R. Krugman said:
"However, the fact that an economist offers a theoretical analysis does not and should not automatically command respect. What is needed is some assurance that the analysis is actually relevant."

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