Right on cue, Greg Mankiw exemplifies the intellectual impoverishment of mainstream teaching in economics.
I hadn't previously read Gabriel Mihalache's blog. I'm inclined to be more tolerant of this nonsense, given this acknowledgement. (Is it clear that the equations in this post are clickable?)
Based on the comments on this post, I may have more readers than the amount of comments suggests.
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