Steven Horwitz ("a truly clueless idiot" - Brad DeLong)
If you're interested in consuming more of my ignorance of economics, here are three new pieces you can peruse.
1. I have an op-ed in today's Christian Science Monitor on why more competition is the cure for the ills of the health-insurance industry: "The Verizon Wireless Cure for Health Care Reform."
2. This week's "The Calling" discusses "Diversity and the Free Market," arguing that markets are very underappreciated as promoters of diversity among those who like to promote diversity.
3. This month's SLU podcast is now up, in which I discuss the similarities and differences between what's happening in Haiti and the Gulf Coast after Katrina.
I haven't been keeping up with Brad DeLong. I wouldn't go as far as he does about you.
Posted by: Mario Rizzo | February 04, 2010 at 12:27 PM
Not only are you a clueless idiot in DeLong's less-than-humble opinion, but also "mendacious." The marvel is that anyone pays him the slightest attention anymore. Talk about "carrying water" for politicos!
Posted by: Roger Koppl | February 04, 2010 at 12:39 PM
Don't forget the ethics-free Republican hack" stuff.
And here's the quote of the day, from Professor Stiglitz,
_Freefall_:
"When an economy is weak, attack with overwhelming force."
Posted by: Bill Stepp | February 04, 2010 at 12:43 PM
Being insulted by DeLong is good these days. I think most folks who read economics blogs have got to know what he's like.
Posted by: Current | February 04, 2010 at 01:01 PM
"I haven't been keeping up with Brad DeLong. I wouldn't go as far as he does about you." So much for the Rizzonian peace! :)
Posted by: Steve Horwitz | February 04, 2010 at 01:05 PM
How old is Brad DeLong?
Posted by: Jesus von Mises | February 04, 2010 at 01:24 PM
Bradford DeLong appears to have a truly remarkable amount of time available for insulting his erstwhile economist colleagues. This seems to imply a very low opportunity cost to his time. What a truly sad waste of his undoubted talents!
Posted by: Charles K. Rowley | February 04, 2010 at 01:54 PM
"How old is Brad DeLong"
From what I've seen of his antics, I'd say he is about 12, give or take a year.
Posted by: Anderson | February 04, 2010 at 04:43 PM
It's ecologically rational for Delong to be insulting. It ensures he says less of significance on his blog.
One of the reasons good ideas triumph over bad ones (when that happens), is that often stupid people hold the bad ideas. They spend too much time arguing and not enough thinking so the ideas wither.
Posted by: Current | February 05, 2010 at 11:44 AM
For my defense of Steve's "clueless idiocy" see:
http://thinkmarkets.wordpress.com/2010/02/06/crowding-out-brad-delong/
Posted by: Mario Rizzo | February 06, 2010 at 03:22 PM