Women, as I've said before, I believe make better accountants. They are more detail oriented and are in perpetual training to audit their future husbands so they may lord anal retentive inconsistencies over them (HAR HAR HAR!!!). But, no, seriously, you want a woman tax accountant, just as you would a woman editor of books because they are more detailed and precise than men.
I will also stand here before you today and claim blacks make better economists. The reason why is below.
We can test my theory by seeing what kind of upbringing Paul Krugman had. I predict it was very cushy, thereby resulting in the utterly craptastic economist he is today. Anybody know?
I am a big fan of Thomas Sowell. I have read a couple of his books, and many articles written by Sowell.
ReplyDeleteOn the voting block, I think I would go with the Austrian guys. Hayek gets very high marks.
Many people that grow up in wealth and abundance, seem to go the Krugman way of thinking. Milton Friedman`s parents were, (if I remember correctly) garment factory workers. Friedman understood the value of earning a living.
That is what seems to make the difference, not skin colour. Does the person understand the values of hard work, thrift, saving, and personal responsibility. Thomas Sowell understands these values.
Hah stop by my office sometime and find out just how many men are doing the work you credit to women accountants. Around here they are universally lazy useless and bad at research.
ReplyDeleteI think he's mentioned in his "column" that he grew up on Long Island to a unionized father -- meaning, in the 50s, a single family home with a lawn and with neighborhood kids (all white naturally). Someone else commented that he idealizes that era as it enabled the working class a piece of the pie. Hope that helps.
ReplyDeleteThe greatest economists that have ever lived? Mises and Hayek, hands down.
ReplyDeleteKeynes Wikipedia entry reads thus:
ReplyDelete"John Maynard Keynes was born in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, to an upper-middle-class family. His father John Neville Keynes was an economist and a lecturer in moral sciences at the University of Cambridge and his mother Florence Ada Keynes a local social reformer."
I don't think we can read anything into his upbringing of liberal social reform, Fabian socialism and messing about in punts in straw boaters on the River Cam.....Champers and strawberries, anyone?
Thomas Sowell may be the most honest and insightful intellectual of his age. Anyone who wants the real deal on human groups and there interactions needs to read his books.
ReplyDeleteYeah, Krugman's from rich, white Nassau County, New York, from a nice middle-class Jewish family. Daddy was an insurance salesman. Apparently Paul was the sort of socially crippled kid who read sci-fi novels and jerked off a lot instead of playing outside and making friends who weren't Jewish mama's boys like himself. Jewish mamas do everything in their power to ensure no son of theirs will ever get a life that doesn't involve his mama, get any from a real blonde or get out of the Jewish faith alive.
ReplyDeleteUnlike Walter Williams, Paul still hasn't pulled himself together and joined the real world, and probably never will. What kind of guy goes on TV and suggests faking an alien invasion as an excuse to borrow and spend money Americans don't have, even as a joke? Even most beta males hate guys like that.