Thursday, November 01, 2007

Marginal Revolution: Rorschach Economics

Rorschach Economics

Gregor Smith of Queen's University has discovered an amazing new relationship, Japan's Phillips Curve Looks Like Japan.  John Palmer of EclectEcon believes that the result may be systematic as he has discovered that Canada's Phillip's Curve looks like Canada.
Jpcurve
Obviously these people are crazy.  Smith and Palmer clearly do not understand Marshallian macroeconomics - everyone knows that the Phillip's Curve looks like this country.

http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2007/11/rorschach-econo.html