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Yet Quiggin is in the process of writing an entire book doing, I think, essentially that, and Matt, who uses mainstream economic reasoning for everything from stimulus to carbon taxes to (the most important issue of all) parking pricing, quotes him favorably.
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Yet Quiggin is in the process of writing an entire book doing, I think, essentially that
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Yet Quiggin is in the process of writing an entire book doing, I think, essentially that
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John Quiggin is a loser. although global warming is a genuine issue, John is a 'shallow in economic analysis', comfortable, superannuated, intellectual, snob
Ten Random Aussie Blog Posts from Today Ben Barren 2006
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A bon mot from John Quiggin on the state of macroeconomics:
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People like Matt and Quiggin talk as if they object to fundamental principles of the field, but what they actually seem to object to is just the same boring thing everyone should object to: the advancement of the radical right, which has no purist interest in economics, but will use anything it can to advance its own power and enrich its benefactors.
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Meanwhile, John Quiggin observes a resurgence of belief that the world has experienced a post-1970s “great moderation” notwithstanding the enormous global recession: “A crisis that had destroyed whole national economies, bankrupted economies, doubled the US unemployment rate and threatened to bring down the entire financial system becomes, in their telling of the story, a ‘transitory volatility blip in 2009.’”
Matthew Yglesias » My Theory’s Great, Except for the Times It Doesn’t Work 2010
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The problem is that they are not that left, even Quiggin who is far left of Yglesias.
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People like Matt and Quiggin talk as if they object to fundamental principles of the field, but what they actually seem to object to is just the same boring thing everyone should object to: the advancement of the radical right, which has no purist interest in economics, but will use anything it can to advance its own power and enrich its benefactors.
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This more of a debate between center left (Quiggin), center right (Yglesias) and far right (Cowen, Economist, Manikew, Mcardle etc …), all overloaded by heavy rethoric emphasicing the differences far more than the similarities.
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