[__itall]

Investment bank ex-employee here. I'm pleasantly surprised that Hacker News front-page has finally landed an article on the history of modern macroeconomics whose author knows what he's talking about instead of masking their ignorance with popular voodoo buzzwords like "Ron Paul" and "Bitcoins".

Ironically but predictably, very few karma points are given. I'm happy to find this little gold nugget and the intellectual satisfaction that comes with reading it.

[rndmize]

Articles like this (semi-political stuff) tends to get flagged and thus, disappears from the front page at speed. When I clicked the link to read the article, it was around #6 with 20-something points after 2 hours; when I refreshed HN ten minutes later, it had gained ten points but fallen all the way to the second page (~30 odd places).

I'd say there's a not unreasonable chance that the article was flagged because a reader didn't like the history it puts forth.

[ScottBurson]

Perhaps you would like this. I submitted it recently but it didn't make the front page.

http://www.salon.com/2013/07/08/how_%E2%80%9Cecon_101%E2%80%...