https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/5.aspxenCommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/thread/371290.aspxWed, 13 Oct 2010 00:43:56 GMT944abf2b-d1be-4bf2-990d-438cb0e377e9:371290liberty student0https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/thread/371290.aspxhttps://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=5&PostID=371290<p> Sounds like another central planning wonk.&nbsp; Press snooze until 2012.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/thread/371277.aspxWed, 13 Oct 2010 00:13:34 GMT944abf2b-d1be-4bf2-990d-438cb0e377e9:371277LeeO0https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/thread/371277.aspxhttps://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=5&PostID=371277<blockquote> <p align="left"> <em><font face="Sabon-Roman" size="2"><font face="Sabon-Roman" size="2">&quot;In our world, it doesn&rsquo;t matter where you </font></font><font face="Sabon-Roman" size="2"><font face="Sabon-Roman" size="2">got a degree or how old you are or where </font></font><font face="Sabon-Roman" size="2"><font face="Sabon-Roman" size="2">you are from. It just matters what your </font></font><font face="Sabon-Roman" size="2"><font face="Sabon-Roman" size="2">ideas are. And that&rsquo;s how it should be.&quot;</font></font></em></p> </blockquote> <p align="left"> <font face="Sabon-Roman" size="2"><font face="Sabon-Roman" size="2">If that&#39;s the case, why is Austan Goolsbee the new Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers and not Hans Hoppe? Why did the ideas of Keynes take hold in the 1930s&nbsp;instead of those of Mises, Hayek, and Hazlitt? This guy is kidding himself. In Economics, moreso than most other areas of science, political power and connections have trumped ideas for some time.</font></font></p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/thread/371268.aspxTue, 12 Oct 2010 23:20:41 GMT944abf2b-d1be-4bf2-990d-438cb0e377e9:371268Lagrange multiplier0https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/thread/371268.aspxhttps://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=5&PostID=371268<p> He&#39;s the new Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers. He has replaced Christina Romer; what&#39;s your take?</p> <p> Let&#39;s be honest, a man <a href="http://www.uchicago.edu/about/documents/chicagorecord/pdfs/41-1.pdf">who proudly declares</a> that &quot;economists love markets&quot; can&#39;t be all bad, right?</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>