As a rule of thumb I'd say that pretty much any essay that contains the word "structure" is written by a leftist, no matter what the subject. Macroeconomics as

As a rule of thumb I'd say that pretty much any essay that contains the word "structure" is written by a leftist, no matter what the subject. Macroeconomics as a concept is basically leftist, as is focus on/awareness of society, social issues, systems based thinking, promotion of rationality or rational order, and suspicion of trade and natural order. Most of the right-wing crank economics that gets written (and sadly shows up on the HN front page) consists of direct attacks on macro policy and/or fiat currency (i.e. social money, not "hard" money). Rule of thumb: if you're reading a sky-is-falling essay and it contains the words "fed", "federal reserve", "gold", or "inflation" the author is a right-wing nutjob. Macro/social thinking and policy is either dangerous or immoral. Or useless and ineffective. Because, you know, "there's no such thing as society."