The EREP network – Economists for Rational Economic Policies (of which I am a member)
If you were interested in rational economic policies would you let Ritchie be a member?
The EREP network – Economists for Rational Economic Policies (of which I am a member)
If you were interested in rational economic policies would you let Ritchie be a member?
The way to identify a platitude is to negate it. Is anyone likely to set up a foundation for “Irrational Economic Policies”?
Only if he made the teas
@ Bucko, 2.03 pm
Surely that depends on him having the requisite competencies?
Yet another QTWTAIN!
Let’s see… He isn’t rational and he isn’t an economist.
Can’t see the problem, really.
Is this one of those self-selecting self-promoting organsations, like the British Striped Toothpaste Manufacturers Association?
@ Richard Allan
Murphy *has* done so – and makes a living by blogging about it. He just doesn’t call them “irrational”.
Rational, adjective (polemic): Thinking like I do, not like my opponents do.
Surely CEREP – Candid Economists for Rational Economic Policies?
Richard’s article apparently is on tax; what exactly qualifies him to write that?
Sighs …
However, even they don’t consider Ritchie an expert.
However, even they don’t consider Ritchie an expert.
Which, given the credentials of the six listed, should be sobering to Our Ritchie.
Lord, what a crew…
Rob
Committee for Rational Economics and Economic Policies aka CREEPs
Committee for the Understanding of National Taxation Systems.
Nice one, BiCR.
Reminds me that in ’77 I was serving in Cyprus (not UN) and the rumour was that one particularly nasty and incompetent RCT officer at the UN in Nicosia was given the title Controller United Nations Transport. Probably another apocryphal story but still amusing at the time.