tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post4861988066507579339..comments2024-02-13T02:39:22.756-05:00Comments on EconomicPolicyJournal.com: The Economists of 'Occupy Wall Street'Robert Wenzelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14296920597416905488noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-47998511848437899142011-11-16T01:34:41.629-05:002011-11-16T01:34:41.629-05:00The movement likely started last May in Madrid, an...The movement likely started last May in Madrid, and it has appeared in various forms, in countries including Egypt and Libya. It is now taking place in various forms in hundreds of cities worldwide.<br /><br />The main driver might be increasing food prices, if not higher oil prices and chronic unemployment. One report reveals that if food prices do not go down, then the social unrest will grow Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-38205709611322174832011-11-15T20:52:40.968-05:002011-11-15T20:52:40.968-05:00I like JFF's comment.
This isn't a revolt...I like JFF's comment.<br /><br />This isn't a revolt of the 99%. It's the bo-bo revolution..."hipster doofus uber alles"!!! <br /><br />:)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-38075625940194642722011-11-15T16:55:48.847-05:002011-11-15T16:55:48.847-05:00I found this on my campus, hadn't heard anythi...I found this on my campus, hadn't heard anything about this. I sent the link to Tom Woods an hour before you posted it. We need to address this in the light. Sunlight is the best medicine, Austrians need to be in the media as much as possible showing that yes these problems with neo-classical economics have been there and you (austrians) have been pointing this out for a century or more, and Eric Bauerhttp://www.facebook.com/gf.bauer.powernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-79572701380479863412011-11-15T11:46:29.934-05:002011-11-15T11:46:29.934-05:00"Mathematics of Rule" will eventually re..."Mathematics of Rule" will eventually relegate the entire faux economics profession to the dustbin of history along with other mysticism such as the "tooth fairy":<br /><br />http://www.nazisociopaths.org/modules/article/view.article.php/c1/32Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-24059853500642386322011-11-15T09:08:42.594-05:002011-11-15T09:08:42.594-05:00Holy crap, they've hit all of the hipster hot ...Holy crap, they've hit all of the hipster hot buttons.<br /><br />I'm actually kind of afraid now.JFFnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-18473261380586364112011-11-15T08:56:11.340-05:002011-11-15T08:56:11.340-05:00Is Joseph Stiglitz a member of the Pontifical Acad...Is Joseph Stiglitz a member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, because he likes to pontificate at length?Heathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15417060063126394938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-85597049571079341802011-11-15T08:28:56.012-05:002011-11-15T08:28:56.012-05:00This recent piece on Naomi Klein strikes me as hav...This recent piece on Naomi Klein strikes me as having some relevance to much of this movement, or at least, its numerous safe upper middle class sympathisers. See <a href="http://jezebel.com/5100602/naomi-klein-prefers-complaining-to-changing" rel="nofollow">here</a>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-9010477082055111392011-11-15T01:48:49.608-05:002011-11-15T01:48:49.608-05:00Whatever the many problems with neoclassical ortho...Whatever the many problems with neoclassical orthodoxy in economics these guys essentially have no economics at all. It is just wishful thinking and government wand waving hocus pocus.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-48550172822852151322011-11-14T21:40:16.768-05:002011-11-14T21:40:16.768-05:00"Recklessly projecting an illusion of progres..."Recklessly projecting an illusion of progress..."<br /><br />Oh, the humanity!<br /><br />All sarcasm aside, this is frightening stuff. This social order reads like it was written by the inmates.<br /><br />Next up will we see Nehemiah Scudder?<br /><br />jaydubAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-45183273321897352912011-11-14T21:09:36.261-05:002011-11-14T21:09:36.261-05:00"..Adbusters has tapped into legitimate frust..."..Adbusters has tapped into legitimate frustration and anger against the crony capitalist system and appears to be directing it in a far left direction that will also benefit crony capitalists. Rage against the machine is turning into an advocacy of expansion of the machine..."<br /><br />It is their cronies (i.e. American, military-industrial, oil, old media, agri) versus ours (i.e. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-3232308946523746412011-11-14T20:31:06.387-05:002011-11-14T20:31:06.387-05:00Yep, you've proved that you indeed have far le...Yep, you've proved that you indeed have far less tact than I by stating, "How to be a Bitch in the Kitchen and the Bedroom". I will never again question you on this matter (of tact). LOLAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-15609903121347623322011-11-14T20:10:32.246-05:002011-11-14T20:10:32.246-05:00As an exercise, someone should come up with a list...As an exercise, someone should come up with a list of professors who we would like to see take over the Econ 101 claims of the country. Come to think of it, I think Waltet Block did exactly that, in an LRC article a couple years agoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-48040441456299688162011-11-14T20:06:53.313-05:002011-11-14T20:06:53.313-05:00I think that they are all to stupid to realize thi...I think that they are all to stupid to realize this.<br />A bratty little protester will never have the brainpower to recognize tyranny.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-78991165648105597742011-11-14T19:40:23.449-05:002011-11-14T19:40:23.449-05:00Adbusters is actually more annoying than the mains...Adbusters is actually more annoying than the mainstream garbage it lampoons.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-79368584675582893722011-11-14T19:25:02.626-05:002011-11-14T19:25:02.626-05:00i lol'edi lol'edAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-9767350562390238272011-11-14T19:08:10.566-05:002011-11-14T19:08:10.566-05:00This phenomenon is nothing new - look at the revol...This phenomenon is nothing new - look at the revolutions in France in the early 1800's.Boetienoreply@blogger.com