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I had some interesting interactions with him (and former deput asst secretary of treasury DeLong) on this site. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17163449 ht

I had some interesting interactions with him (and former deput asst secretary of treasury DeLong) on this site. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17163449 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17163449 He certainly got the better of that interaction and he was patient enough to continue the conversation on Twitter later. He was one of those intellectuals (like Noam Chomsky) who is accessible and engaging with members of the public. I wouldn't say I knew him, exactly, but we became internet acquaintances, and I appreciated his thoughtfulness whenever we interacted. I can only imagine how many other people had such opportunities to talk to him and will miss him like I will.

fergie 6y ago
Wow- what an odd exchange. So eye opening to see senior academics from repected institutions carrying on like that.
- mleonhard 6y ago
  People in all parts of society get health problems, including mental health problems. I hope the person can recover soon.
QuesnayJr 6y ago
I've already been accused of being a DeLong alt elsewhere on this site, but I genuinely don't understand how Graeber came across better than DeLong in that exchange. DeLong tweeted out a bunch of one-line criticisms of Graeber. Graeber's response is to call DeLong names, and talk about all of the totally famous academics he knows and how they all agree with him. The final chapter of Debt received lots of criticism from lots of people, and Graeber's response was anything but professional. You can see it in the response you link to, right there, where he intimates that DeLong has mental illness. I mean, just look at DeLong's blog. He posts completely normal center-left every couple of days. He's probably an asshole in arguments (he once claimed that a comment by Ed Prescott "failed to pass the Turing test"), but he's like an ordinary dude engaging in ordinary behavior.

fergie 6y ago

Wow- what an odd exchange. So eye opening to see senior academics from repected institutions carrying on like that.

mleonhard 6y ago
People in all parts of society get health problems, including mental health problems. I hope the person can recover soon.

QuesnayJr 6y ago

I've already been accused of being a DeLong alt elsewhere on this site, but I genuinely don't understand how Graeber came across better than DeLong in that exchange. DeLong tweeted out a bunch of one-line criticisms of Graeber. Graeber's response is to call DeLong names, and talk about all of the totally famous academics he knows and how they all agree with him. The final chapter of Debt received lots of criticism from lots of people, and Graeber's response was anything but professional. You can see it in the response you link to, right there, where he intimates that DeLong has mental illness. I mean, just look at DeLong's blog. He posts completely normal center-left every couple of days. He's probably an asshole in arguments (he once claimed that a comment by Ed Prescott "failed to pass the Turing test"), but he's like an ordinary dude engaging in ordinary behavior.