Asymmetrical Information

Sort of like watching "The Wizard of Oz" while listening to "Dark Side of the Moon".

Actually, Wagner is overkill. There is already enough "sturm und drang" in the discussion.

The thread does bring out a flaw in a University of Chicago education. In reading many of the entries, your immediate thought is "What planet are these people from?" How do you even join a discussion full of moonbats?

But, but, they're better people!!! They aren't mean!!!! Reality must see that!!!!! You just hate poor people!!!!!!

The thread does bring out a flaw in a University of Chicago education. In reading many of the entries, your immediate thought is "What planet are these people from?" How do you even join a discussion full of moonbats?

You should have paid more attention in "Self, Culture and Society". For that matter, any upper level course on Nietszche would suffice. There's plenty of opportunity at Chicago to learn to affect conversations below you. Just because the professors treat you as equals doesn't mean you're expected to believe that everyone is.

Back when I was in the College, I took "Equality and Community in the Contemporary United States" for my common core soc. So I missed collective Durkheimian effervescence and some other neat stuff. But got a load of Tocqueville. I took the position that no one at UofC could actually be egalitarian - if so, why were they at UofC.

Combine that, a math degree and an MBA from the GSB, it is real hard to listen to a load of crap.

Because TPM Cafe Book Club is better than it reads, just as Wagner is better than he sounds...

Isn't that the one that goes "Kill the wabbit"?

I recommend the right side of the blogosphere started referring to "global warming deniers" as "heterodox climatologists."

I tried with Argentine tango (Maestro Pugliese) -- and it works as well. At least if there is enough pain, suffering and corazon in it!

I'm looking at the contributors to the TPM Book Club, through page 3:

Thomas Palley, PhD Economics Yale
James Galbraith, PhD Economics Yale
Max Sawicky, PhD Economics Maryland
Diana Coyle, PhD Economics Harvard
Brad DeLong, PhD Economics Harvard
Julie Nelson, PhD Economics Wisconsin
David Ruccio, PhD Economics UMass-Amherst
Mark Thoma, PhD Economics Washington State
Paul Krugman, PhD Economics MIT

David Warsh is a well-known economics writer and Andrew Golis appears to be a mere writer with a Harvard degree.

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