Phil Magness
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Economic historian @independentinst. Opinions = my own. Co-author of the most comprehensive study ever done on the question of "what is neoliberalism?"
Joined December 2012
Working on an update where we look at Karl Marx's citation patterns after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 in multiple language groups. Our original paper focused on English. Here are the results, updated with the new 2024 Google Books corpus.
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And Yarvin will always be Ignatius J. Reilly with an internet connection, destined to blogging his amateur contemplations about Boethius while recovering from the traumas of being hurtled into the abyss of modernity by a horrifying Greyhound Senicruiser trip to Baton Rouge...
Richard will always be Salieri next to David Brock, the Mozart of “reformed rightists.” USSR had this art as well. Every dissident is eligible for the program. You can really make a name for yourself. All sins forgiven, even the worst. And like Brock you can even rise to the top
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Marx was retrofitted into sociology in the 1960s to replace Herbert Spencer due to ideological reasons after being ignored since the discipline's founding. Also, he owes most of his reputation today to Soviet propaganda after 1917 and was regarded as a crank before that. So...
Marx is one of the three fathers of sociology, a significant influence on cultural and social anthropology, on historiography, and on philosophy. Austrians get laughed at for their attempts at ethical theory. They are not on the same level lol
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The Pettis Cult-bots have arrived in the comments. He's basically the new Lyndon LaRouche.
Tariff-worshiping protectionist crank Michael Pettis finds common ground with Marxist magazine Jacobin. Horseshoe Theory never fails.
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I'd only add: these same characteristics (combined with few/no penalties for getting caught) incentivize bad behavior to obtain and advance through academic jobs, including cheating, research misconduct, and rationing jobs through nepotism and ideological litmus tests.
Tenured academia is really not "just a job." - can't be fired. - get a 5-month summer break. - complete flexibility on schedule/wfh - study what interests you -get paid more than enough to live comfortably. It's completely rational to work insanely hard to get this!
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Supply & demand when your econ professor is a Post-Keynesian:
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What started as a campaign became a calling. @EricTrump shares this story of what Mike Huckabee said. Watch the full interview.
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@NewLeftEViews You realize the New Keynesians & Neoclassicals think you're crackpots as well, don't you?
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It's always amusing when astrologers think they are doing rocket science. Even more so when it's multiple different factions of astology.
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The main vulnerability of esotericism is that its practitioners always overestimate their own cleverness in obscuring their intentions from outsiders. Then they get really mad when somebody on the outside calls them out for what they are up to. See also Marxists and Postliberals
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Tariff-worshiping protectionist crank Michael Pettis finds common ground with Marxist magazine Jacobin. Horseshoe Theory never fails.
For Jacobin, I sat with @michaelxpettis for a long conversation about the global trading system. We talked about his influential framework for understanding imbalances, hashed out some of our disagreements, discussed the role of finance and remedies. https://t.co/B5hDWXQhIG
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Settled, neither conquered nor stolen
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Orbanomics = minimum wages, "greedflation" price controls, MMT monetary policy, perpetual deficit spending, vote-buying gimmicks, and a large welfare state of handouts that don't work. It's as if Kamala Harris became dictator of a failing eastern european economy...
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Here is Politico's average of polling trends, showing the opposite trajectort.
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Just going to point out that Nezopont is an Orban government-financed pollster, and Pappin's continuation of employment depends on an Orban victory...
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Hungary has fallen behind peer nations because of statist policy, and here’s a new reason to expect continued su-par performance.
danieljmitchell.wordpress.com
While Poland in recent years has received some very positive attention for the way it is converging with richer countries, the same is not true for Hungary. Indeed, it recently got some negative pu…
Let's see how things are going in the Postliberal Utopia. Turns out they're doing...more socialism.
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Let's see how things are going in the Postliberal Utopia. Turns out they're doing...more socialism.
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There is a category of wrong that is “not just wrong but backwards.” This is an example.
It's an empirical fact that basically everything in our day to day lives has gotten worse over the years. The quality of everything -- food, clothing, entertainment, air travel, roads, traffic, infrastructure, housing, etc -- has declined in observable ways. Even newer inventions
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The "right" will never win by intentionally turning itself into a bad caricature of everything that Critical Race Theory purports the right to be.
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