tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7464708.post4718309556420769951..comments2024-03-22T06:05:36.544-04:00Comments on Kids Prefer Cheese: If Only UNC Had An Econ Department.....Mungowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02340064320347875601noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7464708.post-90063669127887400562007-05-12T22:35:00.000-04:002007-05-12T22:35:00.000-04:00Media Matters this morning makes some good points ...<A HREF="http://mediamatters.org/items/200705120002" REL="nofollow">Media Matters</A> this morning makes some good points about media coverage of Edwards...<BR/><BR/>With respect to this issue, he's in a Catch-22: by working for the hedge fund, he gets this sort of snark about ignoring the fact that UNC has economics classes; had he taken a few courses in Gardner Hall, you can be sure we'd be hearing comments about the silliness of "book learning" as a way of knowing how business "really works".<BR/><BR/>And I suspect it is more accurate to say that he will press for taxation to implement certain programs on the grounds that the scale of the disincentive to "productivity and creativity" is less than the societal benefit of the associated programs.<BR/><BR/>Such things can be measured or at least estimated; I have never felt the call to the religious faith that claims the optimal level of taxation is always "lower than now" without providing any evidence.Dirty Daveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07908818235405186822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7464708.post-11019152505499100112007-05-10T13:07:00.000-04:002007-05-10T13:07:00.000-04:00Well, 12:47, I have a prediction: John Edwards, i...Well, 12:47, I have a prediction: John Edwards, if he wins, will press for taxation and other programs whose premise it is that productivity and creativity are sins, and should be punished.<BR/><BR/>It seems to me that JE learning about how markets work is like finding the fox staring at the chickens at feeding time, and then saying that he wanted to learn about restaurant industry.Mungowitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02340064320347875601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7464708.post-56083222178076938532007-05-10T12:47:00.000-04:002007-05-10T12:47:00.000-04:00I don't understand. So what? I wish more politicia...I don't understand. So what? <BR/><BR/>I wish more politicians worked in Wall Street, and LEARNED from it.<BR/><BR/>I'd take Edwards to task for not learning much from it - but not from doing it.<BR/><BR/>Or maybe he did learn? We'll soon see. Hopefully he'll be a bit less inward looking, protectionist, populist and demagogic than before.<BR/><BR/>But don't pull an Edwards on Edwards, please.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7464708.post-16435691167837658452007-05-09T16:46:00.000-04:002007-05-09T16:46:00.000-04:00We had a really good bloke once; big on all that p...We had a really good bloke once; big on all that public choice stuff etc. Shame they drove him off and he ended up living on the streets or something.Simon Sperohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15956746824178743667noreply@blogger.com