The New Strategy

Believe it or not, prof bug hasn't fallen off the face of the earth and ended up in some godforsaken limbo in outer space with no means of accessing the Internet, never mind the buggy site.  On the contrary, he's been busy posting at various other web sites . . . all economic ones, and mainly libertarian ones to boot. 

Not that they have always welcomed his non-libertarian take on their posts --- among which disgruntled happened to be one called EconLog, run by two professors of economics at George Mason University.  Nothing wrong with their posts there.  The two profs are pretty bright . . . only, well to put it mildly, they're fairly narrowly specialized and it was easy for the buggy prof to bug them: meaning, more precisely, to show up the limits of their knowledge and theoretical arbiter dicta.   They obviously grew piqued.  Who could blame them?. 

Not that they banned prof bug from their web site directly.  No,no; that would contradict their libertarian values, right?  So they did it indirectly --- by the intermediary of their web manager, a fellow who insisted that prof bug not post any arguments longer than 500 words . . . a limit, alas, that hardly adds up to most of prof bug's wind-up prefatory comments. 

Buggy Purgatory

Today's Buggy Topic Is .. .

. . . really a riposte to a radical left-wing poster at Economist;s View, where the chronic and compulsive 7 or 8 posters --- who hog about 80% of the posts --- are convinced that Chile's strong commitments to free-market policies should work against successful economic development, solid democracy, and the sort of flagrant corruption that flourishes all over Latin America except in Chile and Uruguay.   The opposite has been the case, a reality-based claim that prof bug's two posts in the relevant threat at Economist's View try to show.

Click here for the buggy stuff.

Today's Buggy Topic Consists Of . . .

. . . Two lengthy posts on the wise-ranging subjects mentioned above --- with an extensive discussion in the 2nd post of Smith's attack on empire-building and the recent work by international relations scholars on how the combination of rule-based free trade, market-economies and democracy, and regional and global institutions like WTO, World Bank, the EU, NAFTA, and NATO contribute to peace.  Click here for the buggy stuff.

Today's Buggy Topic Continues The ...

... same prof bug stuff that the previous buggy article dealt with . . . Chile's remarkable economic and political record since returning to democracy in 1990 after 27 years under military dictatorship, that return --- reflected in General Pinochet's holding free elections (thanks to American pressure), then losing and stepping down.   You'll find the two buggy posts if you click here.

Today's Buggy Topic Seems . . .

. . . Odd at first sight, no?  Still, it's accurate enough, and three long buggy posts deal with it in a thread at Economist's View.   Click here for the prof bug stuff.

Oh, almost forgot.  I bang out those lengthy comments left at Economist's View at breakneck speed and pause only for a search for data.   No time for review, let alone revisions,  and most of the time, I suppose, it doesn't matter.  Alas, in one of those posts in the thread just linked to,  you'll find some sloppy syntax for which I apologize.

Today's Buggy Topic

The topic, dealt with by three lengthy buggy posts left in a thread at Economist's View, ranges more widely than the subject-title above suggests.  Most buggy followers will likely find the long buggy analysis of the debate about American median-household income-growth since the late 1970s the most interesting parts of the buggy posts, though anyone interested in the social sciences --- and above all, what we can legitimately expect them to do compared to the natural sciences --- will, let us hope, find all three buggy posts informative . . . along with the exchanges there with other posters.

Click here for the buggy stuff.

Today's Buggy Topic

It continues the prof bug analysis of entrepreneurship on the two sides of the Atlantic in a thread at Economist's View, where a lengthy bugged-out post appeared two days ago, much to the horror of some chronic, true-believing left-wing posters.  In reply to them, the buggy prof has added a couple of more posts that dealt with Sweden.

For today's prof bug stuff, click here.  For earlier systematic comparisons between the various advantages of the USA and the EU --- the notion that one country could do everything better than others is an absurdity --- click here and here.

Today's Buggy Topic Digs . . .

... Deeper into the subject in the title above, a continuation in the same thread at Economist's View where prof bug posted a lengthy comment yesterday, followed by two more today.  Note that one of the posts uses the pseudnymn of Dr. Kool-Aid Quacksaver.   Enjoy, along with lots of hard data and comparisons between the USA and, on the other side, Japan and the EU-15 when it comes to "high-expectations" entrepreneurship.

Click here for the buggy stuff.

Today's Buggy Topic May ...

...Look familiar, a repetition of earlier buggy posts in two previous threads on the subject at Economist View.  Don't let appearences deceive.  Fact is, Prof bug added two lengthy posts with new material and more solid documentation, with the first post using a new pseudonym --- Dr. Kool-Aid Quacksaver . . . a continuation of another post left under the same name in a different thread. 

For the latest buggy posts, click here.  For the earlier Dr. Kool-Aid Quacksaver --- a distinguished psychiatrist at the Systematic Study of Special-Needs Sufferers of Quasi-Normal Quack-Quack Weirdos (Dr. B.B. Buggy, M.D., founder and CEO of the Institute) --- click here.

Today's Buggy Topic,

... Strange as it sounds in the subject-title above, is pretty accurate.  There are several buggy posts that deal with the EU, the Greek economic and financial crisis in the eurozone of 16 countries --- in West Europe, Britain and Denmark and Sweden not using the euro, while most of the East European new EU members don't qualify, along with discussions about the US-led coalition of 49 countries in the Afghan war.  Click here for the buggy posts.