tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830084253401570472.post920814684732562678..comments2024-03-28T09:22:36.967+13:00Comments on Offsetting Behaviour: Zeitgeist via Google Search InsightsEric Cramptonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15831696523324469713noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830084253401570472.post-87798823659009569652009-04-11T01:55:00.000+12:002009-04-11T01:55:00.000+12:00Now that was a lot more interesting... excellent e...Now that was a lot more interesting... excellent effort, with thanks!! <BR/><BR/>What amazes me is how readily that first, inadequate <I>Marx vs Rand</I> plot spread through the Internet and to some newspaper sites.<BR/><BR/>I noticed that one can only perform Google Insight plots from January 2004. I wonder how such analysis might turn out done for (some kind of parameters) over 25 year axis. I think an Ocular Regression Analysis would show a steady increase into its present statistical Ball Park.<BR/><BR/>I suggest that the very fact that Rand is now so comparable to Marx or Keynes is the actual "Moment" to which you allude. That is, the "Moment" is not that Rand numbers beat Marx numbers, but that Rand is now being compared in that way! <BR/><BR/>That is especially significant given that Marx, Hegel, Kant, Plato <I>et al.</I> are all put firmly in university students' minds largely by indoctrination rather than reason. In contrast, anything Rand is actively opposed by sneering & dismissive academics and journalists who often have never read Rand —see the many stories about BB&T's efforts to create a single capitalism course -that uses Rand's ideas- in a very few universities! Academics are horrified.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02479600882274172677noreply@blogger.com