Recently, Noah Smith wrote an article comparing Austrian School economics to brain worms. This is not the sort of rhetoric that a man inside academia uses against his intellectual peers. I do, of course, but I am not inside academia. It is surely not the kind of rhetoric that a man with an established reputation uses. But Dr. Smith has no established reputation. Thus, he felt no constraints on his rhetoric. So, who is Noah Smith? He is a young man on welfare. Rather than using food stamps — sorry: a free food debit card — he works for a tax-funded … Continue reading To Stay on Welfare