I'm quite sure it applies to social sciences as well. Source.
A) Citizens for a Jobs and Schools B) Make Us Great Again C) Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow D) We Love USA They're all legitimate Super PACs. However, option C is the only one worth supporting. Although it equally obfuscates its mission and funding and plays mysterious annoying TV commercials in Iowa, its creator is Stephen Colbert. What better way to expose the corrupt process of campaign contributions than by joining in on the fun? Source. This game was insane. And in case you (absurdly) missed what we were all reacting too... Up next: France.
Keynes versus Hayek continued!
Same economists. Same beliefs. New microphones. New mustaches. For those who may have missed it, round one. I love the interspersed clips of Ben Bernanke and his cronies burning money. The Hayekian leanings of the creators are not as subtle in this round. Head nod: LW. Sidebar: When I googled this video("Fight of the Century"), I was so confused why all these real boxing match videos came up as search results. Obviously, I am not a golfer. I'm fighting with weebly to make my wealth index paper actually upload-able, in case anyone had actually been interested enough to read (or look at) the whole thing.
In the meantime, here is a much more interesting true story of the Panyee Football Club in Thailand. This amazing video on competing macroeconomic theories is a couple years old (think stimulus), but I recently realized a couple of my favorite Applied Economists had not seen it.
Digging a bit further (and noting a slight slant in the video), the creators' Hayekian leaning becomes apparent. The education value (funny youtube video + clever rap + macroeconomics!) is extremely high. So I obviously posted it on the class website for my students when we covered macro development. The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. -JM Keynes |