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+rep compromise for saving me having to click on an EPJ link.
We're hitting the big time! Soon "Austrian School" will be a household word. As it is now, when I talk to guys majoring in economics, they have never heard of the Austrian School. Just last week, I was talking to a guy.
"So what are you studying?"
"Economics"
"Oh, wow! What kind of economics are you most interested in?"
"International Economics, probably mostly because I like that teacher."
"Cool. So, my hobby is economics. Have you ever heard of Austrian Economics? You could also call it Causal Realist."
"No."
"Mises?"
"Uhh..."
"Ludwig von Mises"
"No."
"Murray Rothbard? Hayek?"
"No."
"Oh, well, you've heard of Richardo, right? The English Classical School?"
"Yeah, Richardo, sure."
"Well, it's kind of like that, but they took the ideas further. Free market."
"OK."
"Check it out. Austrian Economics. It's awesome. The only economics that's right!"
So we have a long way to go. Any publicity is good.
I saw it last night - if that was supposed to be a joke, I don't get it.
One of the OP link comments mentioned trees make paper, print money... While hiding under rocks could mean gold, silver, something tangible.
Or it could be the Keynsians are stuck up a tree with no way down while the Austrians are hiding under rocks means they are not being heard by many people. Kind of like that saying "Where have you been hiding under a rock?" means no one has heard from them for awhile.
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Last edited by hauntedbaby; 01-14-2013 at 01:51 PM. Reason: mistake
Also it could also be that Keynesians are more pro-active about trying to fix the economy even though their solutions are only temporary whereas Austrians see an economic crisis and rather than trying to proactively solve it they hide under rocks and try to protect their wealth.
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Or it could just be an attempt at a comedic non sequitur with no particular meaning or significance at all ... /Occam's Razor
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Seems like an attack. Hiding under a rock is a metaphor for someone who a recluse and is shut off from the world. At least its mentioned which would of never happened before Ron Paul. Perhaps matt is sending an ambiguous message like hes known to do until he reveals what he means 20 years from now.
Last edited by AGRP; 01-14-2013 at 02:20 PM.
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Also, it wasn't so much Keynesians vs. Austrians as it was Keynesians-and-Austrians vs. the hounds. And the hounds were clearly the winners ...
What are we to make of that?
The Bastiat Collection · FREE PDF · FREE EPUB · PAPER Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850)
- "When law and morality are in contradiction to each other, the citizen finds himself in the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense, or of losing his respect for the law."
-- The Law (p. 54)- "Government is that great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
-- Government (p. 99)- "[W]ar is always begun in the interest of the few, and at the expense of the many."
-- Economic Sophisms - Second Series (p. 312)- "There are two principles that can never be reconciled - Liberty and Constraint."
-- Harmonies of Political Economy - Book One (p. 447)· tu ne cede malis sed contra audentior ito ·
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"Each of us must choose which course of action we should take: education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience to bring about necessary changes. But let it not be said that we did nothing." - Ron Paul
"Paul said "the wave of the future" is a coalition of anti-authoritarian progressive Democrats and libertarian Republicans in Congress opposed to domestic surveillance, opposed to starting new wars and in favor of ending the so-called War on Drugs."
my bad, I forget we're supposed to live like this which always stops hounds dead in their tracks
It seems like an endorsement of Austrian in a round about way at face value. Hiding under a rock is viewed as a societal negative, but look who they are hiding from: The evil burns and his hounds. Burns is probably Bernanke (or a Rockefeller). The hounds are probably the IRS. The scared captive people running up the trees are the member banks/ters (or heads of the Federal Reserve banks or Bernanke). In this case the peaceful solution would be to not take part in the process at all signified by hiding under a rock.
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The original writers for the Simpsons left, what, a decade ago. I didn't think Matt had anything to do with the show.
There is a libertarian supposedly on the staff of the Simpsons. It was in Lew.
From the comments to the OP link....
" Tom Finnigan recently published an article about the libertarian writer on the simpsons at lew rockwell"
Why would a very liberal-leaning cartoon be promoting Austrian economics and criticizing the IRS and the Federal Reserve? I think you're analyzing this a little too deeply.
Even if there is 1 libertarian (although he hasn't written an episode in a decade), I doubt he'd be making complex parables.
Last edited by compromise; 01-14-2013 at 04:31 PM.
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I will comment on the part I think everyone left out which is artificially picking interest rates by what Burns calls a "free market" strategy. At least at this level I think they point at the absurdity of not letting the market determine rates which results in the eventual slaughter of the economy
The Simpsons missed a third group, the police, who would've likely just killed all the hounds.
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Im going to be lending my cousin books on Austrian econ. She is an econ major and has been inculcated with Keynesian ideals. Im thinking of going with human action first, and if well received going to Man econ state, provided I am done with it at that point.
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