Another FITs team

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This one calls itself “The Definite Optimists.” They had the next to last pick in the first round of the Fantasy Intellectuals draft. I thought that this was another team that stayed away from mood affiliation.

You can go to this page to see the different Fantasy Intellectuals teams. Just select any team. Comment only on the teams you like.
UPDATE: link fixed, and now the report shows the current standings. Game On!

In order, its picks were:

1 Coleman Hughes
2 Noah Smith
3 Heather Heying
4 Andrew Sullivan
5 Megan McArdle
6 Douglas Murray
7 Miles Kimball
8 Mike Solana
9 Joseph Henrich
10 Anne Applebaum
11 Larry Summers
12 Peter Attia
13 Alexey Guzey
14 Applied Divinity Studies (pseudonym)
15 Nintil (pseudonym)

This was a nice variety of picks. The top 5 are capable of earning steel-manning points. Joseph Henrich and Larry Summers are clever later-round picks, likely to score meme points for WEIRD and “secular stagnation,” respectively. Yes, I know that Larry did not coin secstag, but he recently re-popularized it, just as Paul Krugman recently re-popularized “liquidity trap.”

6 thoughts on “Another FITs team”

  1. I keep thinking of names that are missing. Brad DeLong comes to mind. Also, Stephanie Kelton, author of “The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy.” She, among others, is providing the intellectual underpinnings driving our current frenzy of government spending.

  4. I think 10 teams is the right amount to start, but team owners should be allowed to add new owner-partners. Now that the draft is over, the big work is counting points.

    This Optimists team would be easy for me to follow.

    I chose my Sam-I-Am team to be easy for following – tho there might be a lot of video/ podcasting (not text???).

    If Arnold still allowed it, I’d be willing to add a partner.

  5. Lysander – I believe Stephanie Melton is on one of the teams, which I find surprising. I view MMT as a re-hash of a special case in Keynesian or ISLM theory when liquidity trap conditions hold and don’t expect she’ll score a lot of points.

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