{"id":6652,"date":"2011-07-13T09:12:29","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T14:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=6652"},"modified":"2011-07-13T09:56:42","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T14:56:42","slug":"chicago-calvinball-the-chicago-school-of-economics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/07\/13\/chicago-calvinball-the-chicago-school-of-economics\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Calvinball &#8211; The Chicago School of Economics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Krugman&#8217;s piece, <a title=\"Chicago School of economics story\" href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/07\/12\/chicago-calvinball\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Chicago Calvinball<\/strong><\/a>, is probably too inside economics for most people&#8217;s interest.\u00a0 However, it does give evidence about my thesis that the <a title=\"Definition on wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chicago_school_of_economics\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Chicago School of economics<\/strong><\/a> is alive and well and still corrupting economic thinking.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the key quote from the article that suits my purpose.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Reading <strong><a title=\"Article by Cochrane\" href=\"http:\/\/noahpinionblog.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/john-cochranes-sum-of-all-right-wing.html\" target=\"_blank\">Noah Smith reading John Cochrane<\/a><\/strong> solidified a thought I\u2019ve been grasping at for a while: the extraordinary lengths to which the Chicago School is going to avoid a straightforward interpretation of the mess we\u2019re in.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think this issue of the Chicago School is important.\u00a0 I conjecture that some of Obama&#8217;s obstinacy about taking the strong economic measures he should have taken come from the pernicious influence that the Chicago School has on his thinking.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"95%\" src=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/calvinball1.jpg\" alt=\"Cartoon explaining Calvinball\" \/>\n<\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Krugman&#8217;s piece, Chicago Calvinball, is probably too inside economics for most people&#8217;s interest.\u00a0 However, it does give evidence about my thesis that the Chicago School of economics is alive and well and still corrupting economic thinking. Here is the key quote from the article that suits my purpose. Reading Noah Smith reading John Cochrane [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6652","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6652"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6659,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6652\/revisions\/6659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}