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Dictionary of Received Ideas

That's the name of a feature by Justin Evans in the new periodical The Point (issue two, Winter 2010). It's a bit like Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary and I found it to be the funniest article I have read this year. (It doesn't seem to be on-line.) Here is one set of consecutive entries:

Economics: actually explains everything
Economy, the: completely incomprehensible

I also liked this one:

Debt: i) public -- is inexcusable;
private -- drives the economy.

ii) public -- drives the economy;

private -- is a failure of social safety nets.

Dictionary of Received Ideas, Marginal Revolution, July 9, 2010

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Posted July 9, 2010 08:47 AM · Permalink · Humor

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