I recently found a cool little blog called Krugman-in-Wonderland where a fellow Austrian Economist blogs about Krugman articles. In the comments section there's a cheeky little upstart whose constantly challenging the author on basic economic theory, calling the guy out on just about everything. And what he's arguing seems like pure rubbish economics, but the professor never pops in to defend himself, so there's nobody there that can really shut him down decisively.
I invited him here in hopes of getting a spirited debate going, but here's the addy in case someone wants to check out the blog and maybe mix it up with him on his turf.
http://krugman-in-wonderland.blogspot.com/2010/07/is-deflation-enemy-or-is-it-inflation.html
He goes by AP Lerner in the recent blogs, but posts under 'anon' in the older ones. I wrote him off as just a economic simpleton at first, his contentions about public debt seemed laughably stupid, but he's defended himself well enough that I think it'll take someone that really knows their stuff (like a Phd student or professor) to handle this guy.
Hope to see you there.
--Greg
Maybe you could email Professor Anderson himself and see what he thinks of it, though I doubt that he'll have the time to answer by himself every one of the objections that "AP Lerner" has.
I will examine some of his (or her) views in this thread:
http://mises.org/Community/forums/p/18268/348213.aspx
I read through the post. Thanks for that. I also found the link where AP gets much of his info. Some theory called MMT or something based on some type of monetary accounting scheme, which, purpordetly, reveals much about economics and why some many economists are dead wrong.
I'm glad someone could counter some of these arguments because from a layman's view, some things made sense.
Noname, I did contact Prof. Anderson, the writer of the blog. He basically said he wouldn't take AP Lerner on, that it was a waste of time, and that his blog readers should do it. I think he's changing his mind lately, though, because I see him commenting more often and taking on detractors. That's good, imo.
Thanks again.
razerfish:I read through the post. Thanks for that. I also found the link where AP gets much of his info. Some theory called MMT or something based on some type of monetary accounting scheme, which, purpordetly, reveals much about economics and why some many economists are dead wrong.
Thanks for the tip. I will post some more links in the other thread about some of the underlying theories, since he bases some of his arguments on a strange admixture of various econ blogs, which, ironically, don't necessarily support his views, but sometimes say the complete opposite of what he's saying.