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Mechanical Engineer Embraces the Language of Paul Krugman
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Friday, October 14, 2011 - 3:51pmSanction this postReply
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Thanks, Luke.

I thought that this guy's quintessimal fundalesensce was a bit obvolumerated in such a way that left me feeling somewhat overabundified.

:-)

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Saturday, October 15, 2011 - 6:23amSanction this postReply
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Was there a redistributor in that contraption? :-)

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Saturday, October 15, 2011 - 8:15pmSanction this postReply
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Nothing new under the sun... Ayn Rand's favorite comedian, Prof. Irwin Corey, still funny after all these years.

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Sunday, October 16, 2011 - 4:21amSanction this postReply
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Thanks for sharing that, MEM.

Where did you learn that this man was her favorite comedian?

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Sunday, October 16, 2011 - 9:08amSanction this postReply
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I think that Barbara Branden said something about it over on MSK's Objectivist Living, but I could not find that. However...

Professor Irwin Corey - THE FORUM for Ayn Rand Fans
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"Professor" Irwin Corey (born July 29, 1914, Brooklyn, New York) is an American comic, film actor and left-wing political activist, ...

Irwin Corey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Professor" Irwin Corey ... Irwin Corey was born in 1914 in Brooklyn, New York. ... One notable fan of Corey's comedy was Ayn Rand, and influential theatre critic ...

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During the years when Ayn and Charles were stamp collecting, the conversation ... And she liked Professor Irwin Corey, the character on television who was ...

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Facets qfA_yrz Rand, the first publishing project of the Ayn Rand. Archives Oral History ... thought 'Professor' Irwin Corey was funny. But as these examples ...

Irwin Corey
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Irwin Corey on WN Network delivers the latest Videos and Editable pages for News ... One notable fan of Corey's comedy was Ayn Rand, and influential theatre ...


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Wednesday, February 1, 2012 - 7:10amSanction this postReply
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Ha!

He could have easily thrown in a "Minsky Moment" into his "Fisher-Minsky-Poo" approach, while slipstreaming into the atomvernacular defoobulator...


Check out the same sign of the slopes on the aggregate -- the aggregate, mind you -- supply/demand curves in Figures 1,2,3 of this piece of technical barbarism.


...as referenced here.


This Nobel Prize winning Princeton professor mixes dynamic analysis with static analysis, and leads himself into a gross blunder, as evidenced by the similar signs of those static analysis curves(which are nowhere explained by his gibberish math.) He asserts their similar signed slope based on his dynamic hocus-pocus "Minsky Moment" and then uses static analysis(S-D curves with flawed sign/sense of slopes) to come to his conclusions.


At no point do consumers statically prefer to buy MORE of things at higher prices in aggregate(ie, the economies as a whole). The rare exceptions to this are freak outliers like 'the Cadillac effect' and do not represent economies in aggregate. He has mixed(did you see him?)the dynamic analysis of 'a shift in the supply/demand curves' with a fundamental change in sign of the slope of the static demand curve. He made what is known as a blunder, but the results of the blunder supports his politics, and so, is totally reasonable political science.

FAIL, professor. Would not pass muster in any sophomore engineering class.

But ... would fit right into this video, or any of his talking head appearances reprising the role of Dr. Irwin Corey...



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