ALLISON'S MODEL ONE IS BASED ON MACRO NOT MICRO IT SEEMS TO ME

This idea undergirds macro modelling in its most Mickey Mouse versions.

It is also based on Locke's model of human mentality:

"Paradoxically, the men who trusted so highly in the powers of intelligence regarded the mind as essentially vacant and inert; the idea of the passive mind was indispensable to their system.  it was the guarantee that the truths of nature might be perceived without distortion.  It was the basis for the distinction, then so important and so clear, between enlightenment and prejudice.  It was the metaphysical groundwork for the belief that men were equal, and that they possessed the quality of perfectibility, that is, susceptibility to progress.  Minimizing the effects of will, denying original predisposition, refusing to see any inevitability in human nature, the doctrine was flatly contrary to the Christian idea of sin; and by representing man as a passive child of circumstances, easily abused by his environment, it slipped sometimes into a notion that human nature, when crude, is good; and that order, restraint, discipline, and suppression are affronts to man's dignity and freedom." 

Catholics and Unbelievers in 18th Century France, Index Locke, Diderot, Rousseau. See especially Palmer, p 133, 134

Locke's (and Jefferson's) tabula rasa we might think of as the mind of a young "state of nature" Krugman zombie, and since we are here talking economics, it should also be thought of as an economics infant.

Since this discussion is getting sophisticated, why not unpack it a little with a prior post for illustrative terminology purposes?

Thursday, August 29, 2019

KRUGMANOMICS WONKISH ANALYTIC GEOMETRY

Voodoo and Zombie are Republican tax cut creatures.

Vampires are also species of political creatures of both parties.

The evil eye depicted here is Democratic at this time, but could turn Republican.

All circles are composed of mostly Christian stooges of either right left or liberal.

Jesus, of course, appeals to all these stooges.

Let's try to interweave this analysis and diagram with Krugman's telling and appealing account of morons, here and there, and his distinctions and mine in that regard....It cannot be a close comparison, but analogies do exist.

IMBECILE IDIOT MORON INTELLIGENCE SCALE

"Mental deficiency used to be divided into the following sub-classifications, but these labels began to be abused by the public and are now largely obsolete: 

Borderline Deficiency (IQ 70-80), 

Moron (IQ 50-69), 

Imbecile (IQ 20-49) 

Idiot (below 20)."

It seems perfectly fair to me for the public, and especially for the press, to use or to abuse these ostensibly obsolete so called labels (but actually real expermentally determined categories) at will and without let or hindrance from any social science arbiters whatsoever. 

I fully intend to keep using these terms, and I hope Krugman will too.