tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17232051.post7581655664564917912..comments2024-03-28T03:16:14.104-04:00Comments on Noahpinion: Thursday Roundup (3/29/2012)Noah Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09093917601641588575noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17232051.post-27834535680534057512012-03-29T21:57:44.779-04:002012-03-29T21:57:44.779-04:00Oh ho ho. No one decides Noah Smith's future b...Oh ho ho. No one decides Noah Smith's future but Noah Smith and the Flying Spaghetti Monster.Noah Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09093917601641588575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17232051.post-5216061325357708582012-03-29T21:54:49.122-04:002012-03-29T21:54:49.122-04:00Also, I want to make nice because I would rather h...Also, I want to make nice because I would rather have an intellectual discussion than just lambaste someone. Personal preference. And I happen to consider Steve Williamson neither a liar, a hack, nor a "wh*reson".<br /><br />Sometimes people do genuinely offend me. Steve Landsburg, saying that public sexual harassment is OK. Niall Ferguson, saying Asian Americans aren't real Americans. But the worst Steve Williamson ever does is insult other bloggers...and this is the blogosphere, so that happens. I'm not worked up about it.Noah Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09093917601641588575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17232051.post-74275641325555535012012-03-29T20:59:10.016-04:002012-03-29T20:59:10.016-04:00Well, maybe not that obscure.Well, maybe not that obscure.Noah Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09093917601641588575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17232051.post-41530311249944283972012-03-29T20:57:37.017-04:002012-03-29T20:57:37.017-04:00Settle down, settle down...
(Also: Just so you kn...Settle down, settle down...<br /><br />(Also: Just so you know, I delete all comments that advocate violence...)Noah Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09093917601641588575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17232051.post-77845014233507080902012-03-29T19:41:40.453-04:002012-03-29T19:41:40.453-04:00David AndolfattoMar 26, 2012 08:39 AM
I do not thi...David AndolfattoMar 26, 2012 08:39 AM<br />I do not think you should be lumping Noah in with those two bozos, however. Noah seems genuinely curious and open-minded.<br /><br />Stephen Williamson Mar 26, 2012 08:59 AM<br />Yes, I agree with that. Obviously Krugman sees him as a "fellow-traveler" though.<br /><br />There is one more reason for this strain of macro to outlast all others: it is a cult... where they congregate and decide the future of people like you. And the St. Louis Fed is really the Fox News of macroeconomics.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17232051.post-31273758284909548732012-03-29T19:24:27.793-04:002012-03-29T19:24:27.793-04:00"Mark Thoma and Steve Williamson make up and ..."Mark Thoma and Steve Williamson make up and have a beer! Yay. All is at peace in the blogosphere. Now I want a beer."<br /><br />J*s*s F*cking H. Chr*st. Why the hell do liberals want to make nice with lying hack wh*resons who have long since demonstrated that they are indeed lying hack wh*resons?<br /><br />The goal should be to string up Williamson, not to make nice with him.Barry DeCiccohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04735814736387033844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17232051.post-35975063438533046912012-03-29T19:11:51.984-04:002012-03-29T19:11:51.984-04:00In what sense is SRW an obscure blogger?In what sense is SRW an obscure blogger?vimothynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17232051.post-57176562383833065672012-03-29T15:07:21.938-04:002012-03-29T15:07:21.938-04:00" the old Confederacy lives on as a cancerous..." the old Confederacy lives on as a cancerous tumor within our body politic that has metastasized during a moment when America's immune system was weak, and that this is what is strangling our institutions"<br /><br />The South Has Risen Again! By taking over the party of Lincoln.Sethnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17232051.post-23961713962788313982012-03-29T14:07:25.577-04:002012-03-29T14:07:25.577-04:00I scanned over the comments in the Williamson thre...I scanned over the comments in the Williamson thread. He's a nut job and his own comments expose him as such. You should not aspire to having such threads on your blog.Absalonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09131268683451462949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17232051.post-38554892277695783132012-03-29T13:38:00.509-04:002012-03-29T13:38:00.509-04:00I just thought to mention that (a) I enjoy your li...I just thought to mention that (a) I enjoy your links very much, and should probably visit more frequently than I do, (b) as happens all too frequently, I left a comment on the Williamson thread you cite, and then on going back to the originating site (yours) found to my dismay below that you had thought first and thought best on the subject (reminds me of grad. school), and (c) you should get back to work on that great pile of paper you're trying to whip into a meaningful dissertation. If it helps, my advisor used to say that I should carve away anything that didn't look like a thesis, and what was left would be publishable. He had a real mean streak, that fellow.JohnRnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17232051.post-7082740183463795822012-03-29T13:17:11.159-04:002012-03-29T13:17:11.159-04:00I loved this comment from the Williamson comment t...I loved this comment from the Williamson comment thread:<br />“You are absolutely right about the state of macroeconomics--its health is perfect.<br /><br />########<br />"Why, we just went 3 for 3: (1) we did not have any hint or idea the Lesser Depression was coming; (2) we have no idea what caused the Lesser Depression; and (3) we have no idea what to do about the Lesser Depression (we won't use either or both fiscal or monetary policy, nor will we learn from Japan).<br /><br />And, I almost forgot: But we can see inflation even though: (1) we didn't see inflation the last time (the bubble in real estate); (2) Europe is in recession and it is going to get worse; and (3) in 2013 we are going to have massive fiscal deflation (tax increases and spending cuts)”<br />#########<br /><br />Also: Steve Randy Waldman is frequently absolutely magisterial. I often read blog posts that I like – but only his are sometimes so over the top good that I spam my colleagues inboxes with them (not that it is really fair to compare his weekly essays with other bloggers more frequent posts).neminoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17232051.post-65843623263748463642012-03-29T12:39:12.595-04:002012-03-29T12:39:12.595-04:00Re 14), the appreciation of Noether, see this corr...Re 14), the appreciation of Noether, see this correction/clarification:<br />http://mathoverflow.net/questions/92439/did-emmy-noether-ever-publish-under-a-mans-nameAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17232051.post-48236659226715267992012-03-29T11:50:02.193-04:002012-03-29T11:50:02.193-04:00Thanks! I'll try to remember this time... ;)Thanks! I'll try to remember this time... ;)Noah Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09093917601641588575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17232051.post-27031163847597256922012-03-29T10:12:05.226-04:002012-03-29T10:12:05.226-04:00MS is Matthew Steinglass.MS is Matthew Steinglass.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17232051.post-4949637274846115372012-03-29T06:36:00.438-04:002012-03-29T06:36:00.438-04:00Noah,
If you like Steve Waldman institution type ...Noah,<br /><br />If you like Steve Waldman institution type analysis then I highly recommend Samuel Bowle’s book ‘Microeconomics: Behavior, Institutions, and Evolution’. Don’t be put of by the title, it’s a misnomer. It teaches you to analyse things exactly the way Steve just did.DavidNhttp://twitter.com/#!/ThePoliEconnoreply@blogger.com