tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post3244390109086926844..comments2024-03-06T06:34:42.881-05:00Comments on EconoSpeak: Saudi Succession ShuffleUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-52974895850330566642017-07-09T09:58:17.974-04:002017-07-09T09:58:17.974-04:00As for the Sudairi Seven, Ahmed bin Abdulaziz is a...As for the Sudairi Seven, Ahmed bin Abdulaziz is also still alive (by all accounts), even if he was sidelined for succession in 2014 for unclear reasons.XLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076139420257844126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-91520962086188751622017-06-22T14:22:13.630-04:002017-06-22T14:22:13.630-04:00"the date of death of THE MOTHER of the curre..."the date of death of THE MOTHER of the current king of Saudi Arabia..."rosserjb@jmu.eduhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09300046915843554101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-90344592076235273682017-06-22T14:20:10.309-04:002017-06-22T14:20:10.309-04:00For the record, Egmont, I had nothing to do with d...For the record, Egmont, I had nothing to do with deleting your posts and do not approve of that being done, if for no other reason than that it gives you this justification for this incessant whining.<br /><br />It has been stated repeatedly that we at Econospeak speak about all sorts of things, not sll of them directly economics. Yeah, Elvis stuff not all that close to economics aside from some connections to possible issues of racial or ethnic discrimination in music marketing.<br /><br />But in fact what goes on in Saudi Arabia does have implications for the world economy because of the place's important role in world oil markets. I did not directly comment on that in this post, although in fact the rise of Muhammed bin Salman has potential implications for it, and he has been making efforts to boost oil prices, so far those efforts not succeeding. But if his aggressive stances and actions lead to more direct actions, such as an outright attack on Qatar or worse yet, Iran, that could. And, Egmont, in case you have not figured it out, I know far more about Saudi Arabia than probably anybody you will ever meet, nad I think that I should let the world know things it might not. I mean, how many people do you know who can dispute what Wikipedia says about the date of the death of the current king of Saudi Arabia and comment on how she ran the place, which she did?rosserjb@jmu.eduhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09300046915843554101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-35307491515363417522017-06-22T12:12:36.549-04:002017-06-22T12:12:36.549-04:00Have we reached the bottom of gossip economics?
Co...Have we reached the bottom of gossip economics?<br />Comment on Barkley Rosser on ‘Saudi Succession Shuffle’<br /><br />Always when you think you have seen the worst crap of economics you are in for a surprise because Barkley Rosser posts on EconoSpeak.<br /><br />To put things in perspective one has to realize that Barkley Rosser is the very incarnation of the representative economist. That is:<br />― Since Econ 101 he has not understood what profit is.<br />― He has never understood that Walrasianism, Keynesianism, Marxianism, Austrianism is mutually contradictory, axiomatically false, and materially/formally inconsistent.<br />― He has never understood that the pluralism of false theories makes economics a fake science.<br />― He has never understood that economics is NOT about Human Nature/behavior/reproduction but about the behavior of the economy.<br />― He has never understood that he most of the time violates scientific standards.<br />― Instead of bringing himself scientifically up to speed he clarifies Elvis’ genealogy: “Elvis Presley almost certainly had African ancestry, even if as the son of a culturally white family born in the heart of the racist Deep South in Tupelo, Mississippi, he never made any mention of this likely fact overtly to my knowledge.”<br />― Instead of studying the cutting edge of economics he gossips about the celebrities of the Saudi family: “Abdulaziz, who died in 1953 after uniting Saudi Arabia and having 43 sons and over 100 wives, although never more than 4 at a time. Certain wives were more important than others and produced more important sons, with basically only three in play here regarding possible future succession to the Saudi throne. And “Muhammed bin Salman is a millennial, and this is the moment of the millennials taking charge there, even if it is a ‘sloppy’ and ‘unwise’ and highly aggressive one that is doing so.”<br /><br />Somehow, Barkley Rosser has come down to a dog breeder’s variant of political economics. And, having lost all perspective, he has no objections when the admin of EconoSpeak deletes posts that straightforwardly debunk his poor economics.<br /><br />Not much positive can be said about the representative economist: he is a failed scientist and to call him sloppy and unwise would be a bit flattering.<br /><br />Egmont Kakarot-Handtke<br /><br />* See preceding threads<br />‘Needed: The Worst of the Worst of economics blogs’<br />http://axecorg.blogspot.de/2017/06/needed-worst-of-worst-of-economics-blogs.html<br /><br />‘Banana economics’<br />http://axecorg.blogspot.de/2017/06/banana-economics.html<br /><br />‘First Lecture in New Economic Thinking’<br />http://axecorg.blogspot.de/2017/05/first-lecture-in-new-economic-thinking.htmlAXEC / E.K-Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10402274109039114416noreply@blogger.com