1 posted on
12/13/2009 9:24:46 AM PST by
decimon
To: decimon
Wasn't Samuelson the one who said he had seen the Soviet command economy, that it had "the consent of the governed," "and it works"-- right around 1989?
To: decimon
I think this is the guy who wrote all my college econ textbooks.
To: decimon
At this point I think more highly of the folks at Mad Magazine than I do at the NObel prizes.
11 posted on
12/13/2009 10:43:49 AM PST by
Joe Boucher
(This marxist punk has got to go.)
To: decimon
12 posted on
12/13/2009 10:46:22 AM PST by
Jimmy Valentine
(DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
To: decimon
My Econ 101 book was written by Paul.
13 posted on
12/13/2009 11:59:43 AM PST by
Drango
(A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
To: decimon
Liberal he was, but he was also a "Greatest Generation" liberal. The late Henry Hazlitt poked fun at his acolytes by nicknaming them "Growthmen," portraying them as overly-earnest stuffed shirts who insisted that the U.S. economy wasn't growing fast enough.
That stance is light-years away from current liberals. Prof. Samuelson and his "boys" may have been inveterate-tinkerer statists, but their hearts were quite different from the hearts of Al Gore et. al. They really wanted more prosperity, and they did believe in American greatness.
Strange as it may sound to liberal-adverse economists, I think he'll be missed by some conservatives. He was a pillar of the old optimist consensus; he really was.
To: decimon
16 posted on
12/13/2009 8:05:46 PM PST by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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