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Thu 1 Sep 2011 20:58

@neverfox – oh, that was a typo. I thought you were saying I’d just written “Mises”

Thu 1 Sep 2011 20:57

@neverfox – I’m saying it’s a brief summary of an argument that things are more complex than ordinarily represented

Thu 1 Sep 2011 20:55

@neverfox – not typo, abbreviation. On skype one automatically makes everything as short as possible.

Thu 1 Sep 2011 20:38

@neverfox – Van Mises fan claims to “refute” my argument w/out even bothering to look up the book. I give a detailed response in “comments”

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Thu 1 Sep 2011 20:28

@EgyDebtAudit – what oops? Mine was the oops I rt one tweet of yours when trying to hit “reply”

Thu 1 Sep 2011 01:08

@EgyDebtAudit well that depends who you already know! Email me. Also I’d love to write something

Wed 31 Aug 2011 18:42

@gerrycanavan – well if you must, the original is here – http://t.co/jE81IaB. Written 1998. Yes, it’s true. I invented Buffy Studies!

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Wed 31 Aug 2011 03:03

@ravisarma 1983 “The Theology of Debt in Brahmanism.” In Debts and Debtors (Charles Malamoud, editor), pp. 21-40. London: Vices.

Wed 31 Aug 2011 02:26

@ravisarma – oh I’ve had like 8 requests for specifics. Charles Malamoud has several essays on rna

Wed 31 Aug 2011 02:03

@ravisarma – how many times do I have to do this? Rna, hobah, hoba. Hebrew one only takes on that meaning late

Wed 31 Aug 2011 01:21

@DikaiosLogos – yes! yes! Nasruddin rocks. I have only five stories in the book but I was very proud of getting them past my editor

Wed 31 Aug 2011 01:14

@abcreligion @Honxqp @Gontroppo2010 – turns out the usages in Hebrew are late and prob influenced by Aramaic.

Wed 31 Aug 2011 01:13

@KS1729 – the word rna (can’t do the diacritics on skype) meant both as far back as the Rg Veda. Charles Malamoud has a detailed exposition

Wed 31 Aug 2011 00:04

@Gontroppo2010 – yeah hobah only came to mean both under influence of Sramaic – sorry! Skt “rna” and Aramaic “hoba” still work

Tue 30 Aug 2011 15:52

@JeffreyNewman – fascinating. You know most 17C states tried alchemists first, then when it didn’t work adopted paper money

Tue 30 Aug 2011 06:28

@duncankinney – the latter. Yes, indeed, all of your 1,578 followers should buy my book immediately!

Tue 30 Aug 2011 05:03

@tacanderson – oh, so it came out finally? I originally wrote that piece almost 8 years ago.

Mon 29 Aug 2011 19:16

@timothyjpmason – mainly I meant, not full of discussions of other scholar’s work. But I’m glad you think it isn’t boring!

Mon 29 Aug 2011 15:47

@reneerico – please do. And if you know anyone on Planet Money, ask them what happened? Well, I think it was that Davidson guy