We have all seen the review on amazon that takes it to DA's text. Well now there is an open thread to express your thoughts:
http://firelarrysummersnow.blogspot.com/2009/06/acemoglu-text-review.html
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Dissing Acemoglu's Growth Text
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Posted 1 month ago #
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This genius has to be leaving some i.p. breadcrumbs around. Someone with some know how should find him out.
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It's widely known that the text is shit.
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I didn't even bother to read this.
And no, the New School is not Top 40.Posted 1 month ago # -
I find the text excellent. I wouldn't know why it is considered to be shit.
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OK, just read the "critique" now. I didn't see anything of value in what this Veblen guy wrote.
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I didn't even bother to read this.
And no, the New School is not Top 40.
---------Oh great and mighty top 10 genius who failed to anticipate the financial crisis and who hangs on the coat string of his dissertation advisor...what does New School have to do with it?
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You ingrate. If it wasn't for that $11,000 per household Summers spent on stimulus you would $33,000 poorer now. (Yes, he spent 700 billion and there are 60 million households and the government spending multiplier is 3, just like water boils at 100 degrees.) We would be in great depression and you would be unemployed.
Well I am off to play golf now, and later party with Paul McCartney and some other swells.
He's great and I'm great!
B H Obama
Ps I'm sending you to the Kabul census bureau. Don't worry I have made peace. Proof: Have you heard any word of war in the main stream media.
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"Oh great and mighty top 10 genius who failed to anticipate the financial crisis and who hangs on the coat string of his dissertation advisor...what does New School have to do with it?"
Fuck you, asshat, I didn't see you predicting the crisis. Just because you made the choice to go to a shitty school and study philosophy that pretends to be economics doesn't make you the expert. Quit being bitter, transfer to a better place, and grow up.
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DA's growth text is a tour-de-force. I don't know anyone else that could have synthethized the math, empirics, and issues of growth so well. A half-baked critique of someone that can only understand 1% of the text deserves no attention.
Posted 1 month ago #