A Child’s Garden of Econblogosphere Commenters

It must be humor day in the econblogosphere. Noah Smith offers a delightful illustrated bestiary of various different commenters. Among those skewered: libertarians, post-Keynesians, Republicans, MMT-ers, market monetarists.

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  • [Market Monetarists:] Favorite dead economist: No one. The spot is being reserved for Scott Sumner, along with thousands of life-sized terra cotta grad students.

    LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!

  • One caveat, Art Laffer isn’t dead yet.

  • One caveat, Art Laffer isn’t dead yet.

    No, he isn’t dead, but one could argue his career is over in regards to impact on policy–.i.e. I took it to mean rhetorically dead….

  • Having now effectively swayed the Federal Reserve and won essentially all of the Econ Blogosphere to their way of thinking, the Market Monetarists can hardly be classified as “trolls” any longer…

    Bah, it is only temporary…macroeconomics is really where economics looks silly…macro is like atmospheric physics lots of fancy models that nobody really believes.

  • PD Shaw Link

    I also took Laffer as black humor; he still appears on CNBC.

    I’d only wished Smith had been able to imagine more pictures of how they really look; the nerdy photos were a well visited a few too many times. I LOL’ed at the Austrian pics.

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