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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (36396)	11/16/1998 11:07:00 AM
From: Skeeter Bug	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

mike, lgnd halted pending news. hope we get approval, bro. i have my six shooter but no bullets yet ;-)

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (36396)	11/16/1998 11:43:00 AM
From: HB	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 132070

Mike, Laffer is not an economist. He's a "policy entrepreneur". Krugman is an economist. (And there's a whole book by Krugman, "Peddling Prosperity", on essentially that subject.) O.K., it's also about why Robert Reich and Lester Thurow aren't economists either. You see, they don't have PhD's in Economics -G-. Seriously, it's a good book--a little too simplified for public consumption for my taste, but that's life, and the guy is RAZOR SHARP. We just got Epstein's version of why Krugman didn't have much to say about the Austrians in that article. Knowing how journalism works, it could really be quite different. (For all we know, he told GE they are FOS and that's why -G-). What would you say is (are?) the essential books in Austrian economics? You know, the Austrian equivalent of "The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money"? Was also looking for something by Hayek or von Mises the other day when I bought Krugman's book, but they didn't have anything -G-. Cheers, HB