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Oh, my, Brad DeLong just read the Nugent exercise in crankery and trashed the NR for publishing such, um, hooey ...
Social Security Privatization Debated, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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It's too bad they aren't literate enough about economics to realize that publishing economic crankery does the same thing.
Social Security Privatization Debated, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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This ties in nicely with the movie [current Hollywood schlockbuster related to aforesaid crankery] which comes out in November.
Archive 2010-01-01 Hal Duncan 2010
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This ties in nicely with the movie [current Hollywood schlockbuster related to aforesaid crankery] which comes out in November.
Oh Dear Dog Hal Duncan 2010
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That said, it also means the biggest crankery I see in the US is the anti-vaxxer and anti-plant-science contingent often in the same Venn circle, and they are solidly on the left.
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But this in not "just one perspective" -- it is dressed up crankery.
Social Security Privatization Debated, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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(And speaking of crankery, the "population bombers" who have turned a blind eye to 2,000 years of evidence on this to instead sell absurd scare tales of "exponential growth of population until there are more people than atoms in finite world" sure have shown themselves as cranks in that regard.)
Limits to Growth?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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You don't even have to know any economics to recognize the crankery here.
Social Security Privatization Debated, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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And it does not serve the editors of NR any better than presenting any other crankery (flat-earthism, astrology, UFO stories, alchemy) in a serious mode.
Social Security Privatization Debated, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Always saw it used in relation to one right wing crankery or another. mohammed allah Says:
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