John Maynard Keynes v. Ludwig von Mises
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Try this Google Fight
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Bah. Who uses full names anyway?
What’s to stop a devotee of Mises from making a page with his name written 1 million times?
Google fight is for statistics lovers. I get very irritated when someone actually uses google numbers in a study. This is a disease that seems to be spreading quickly.
If anything, I think this is a little more representative. Or this?
But ideas which are marginalized by the majority are surely to be expected to be found relatively more often in the Internet than in the old media, because it is much easier to maintain a blog, for example, than to run a TV channel.
Hmmm, good point. I should put up a “fight” between Sarah Brady and John Lott!
very nice blog,congratulations…
Very misleading indeed. Search for just Keynes against just “von Mises,” and you end up with Keynes winning with almost 18m hits to only 3m. This, at least to me, seems the most accurate result judging by people I know who are non-economists but who care about the issues. All seem to know Keynes, less know von Mises.
For all the Austrian school fans out there, this should be a call to action for evangelism rather than a static analysis, however.
Marc, I tried the same test before I read your comment. Try “Keynes” vs “Mises” if you like, as “von Mises” isn’t nearly as common as just “Mises” colloquially.
For those of you too busy or lazy to look it up, “Mises” is more common than “Keynes”, pulling up 33.9 million results to Keynes’ 19.6 million.
Marc, it is *your* search that is misleading.
o_O
Ryan,
True that. As you know, Empiricism always yields positive returns.
Isn’t “Mises” a French word that will show up on thousands of web pages?
I like the results for freedom v democracy.
PP, I do too but take a look at capitalism v socialism. I know it’s just fun and games but gee wezz.
With just the “Mises” or even “von Mises”, how many hits are for stress equations or aerodynamics?
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