Thursday, August 4, 2011

I Can't Tell if Tyler Cowen is Joking or Totally Serious

He tweets:

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  1. I guess to the sheltered intellectuals, screwing over the working class isn't a negative.

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  2. He's serious. He reads Scott Sumner, who has cast a spell on most of the profession at this point. They honestly believe Bernanke has been stingy with monetary policy all along.

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  3. Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and feed him for a lifetime.

    We need to distribute printing presses to everyone! Call them iQEs, and we'll never have to worry about a tight monetary policy again.

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  4. LOL at his Twitter pic.

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  5. This is a professor from a supposedly free market college?

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  6. Mainstream Economists:

    Build a man a fire and he is warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life.

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  7. This is what you can expect with people who think being 'practical' is more important than principles.
    If you don't have principles, you can say or do anything.

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