Comments on: The invisible link: For a real stimulus, let’s invade Europe http://www.liberal-vision.org/2009/11/06/the-invisible-link-for-a-real-stimulus-lets-invade-europe/ Looking Forward to Freedom Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:08:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: In economics, politics matters « Freethinking Economist http://www.liberal-vision.org/2009/11/06/the-invisible-link-for-a-real-stimulus-lets-invade-europe/comment-page-1/#comment-2684 In economics, politics matters « Freethinking Economist Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:53:19 +0000 http://www.liberal-vision.org/?p=3722#comment-2684 [...] like the proverbial monkey chucking darts at the FT. Everyone – left, right, Liberal, green, Austrian, etc – thinks this crisis is a Told you [...] [...] like the proverbial monkey chucking darts at the FT. Everyone – left, right, Liberal, green, Austrian, etc – thinks this crisis is a Told you [...]

]]> By: Richard Laming http://www.liberal-vision.org/2009/11/06/the-invisible-link-for-a-real-stimulus-lets-invade-europe/comment-page-1/#comment-2649 Richard Laming Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:35:06 +0000 http://www.liberal-vision.org/?p=3722#comment-2649 If Tom Papworth thinks that Paul Krugman's article attempts to justify mass slaughter and destruction, he clearly hasn't understood it. If Tom Papworth thinks that Paul Krugman’s article attempts to justify mass slaughter and destruction, he clearly hasn’t understood it.

]]> By: Tom Papworth http://www.liberal-vision.org/2009/11/06/the-invisible-link-for-a-real-stimulus-lets-invade-europe/comment-page-1/#comment-2648 Tom Papworth Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:16:57 +0000 http://www.liberal-vision.org/?p=3722#comment-2648 Squirrel, I've heard the argument, which isn't the same as hearing the war described as "the giant public works project known as World War II". The argument is bunk, though, as I have pointed out in the full article. The use of bogus economic arguments to justify mass slaughter and destruction is grotesque. Perhaps you need to put down your Victor and Combat comics and read some Bastiat. Or even just the rest of the article. Squirrel,

I’ve heard the argument, which isn’t the same as hearing the war described as “the giant public works project known as World War II”.

The argument is bunk, though, as I have pointed out in the full article. The use of bogus economic arguments to justify mass slaughter and destruction is grotesque.

Perhaps you need to put down your Victor and Combat comics and read some Bastiat. Or even just the rest of the article.

]]> By: Squirrel Nutkin http://www.liberal-vision.org/2009/11/06/the-invisible-link-for-a-real-stimulus-lets-invade-europe/comment-page-1/#comment-2647 Squirrel Nutkin Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:48:29 +0000 http://www.liberal-vision.org/?p=3722#comment-2647 "I’ve read a lot about World War II, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard it described as a “giant public works project” before." What are you - Mark Corrigan? If you haven't come across the public spending aspect of the war effort being credited with lifting the economy out of the doldrums, you just haven't been paying attention. Or maybe all your WWII reading was restricted to Victor and Combat comics. “I’ve read a lot about World War II, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard it described as a “giant public works project” before.”

What are you - Mark Corrigan?

If you haven’t come across the public spending aspect of the war effort being credited with lifting the economy out of the doldrums, you just haven’t been paying attention. Or maybe all your WWII reading was restricted to Victor and Combat comics.

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