How to make your case in the blogosphere

My former assistant Robert Mitchell sends me this useful link on "How To Disagree," which lays out the various forms of argument you can deploy to make your case--from the really terrible ("u r a fag!!!") to the learned refutation ("here are five scholarly papers that show you are wrong").  Unfortunately the most potent form used among economists is not included, the one that begins: "assume there is an infinite number of producers, and a full set of markets for all commodities and dates...."

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[crack]

That U r a Fag argument really needs its own section in Logic 101.