The results are in! We've finished judging The Economic Ideas You Should Forget Contest. Let's check out the winners!

Starting with the irregular awards and moving later to the Mod's Choice awards, we have the People's Choice Award, the submission receiving the most upvotes overall. This award goes to PetarPYoutube for Why You Should Forget the idea that the Fed Has Run Out of Ammunition.

Next up, we have the Hottest Take Award, the submission ranked #1 when you sort by controversial. This award goes to generalmandrake for Why You Should Forget The Concept of Moral Hazard.

For the Most Interesting Tangent Award, we have noactuallyitspoptart on the intellectual history of and metaphysical debates behind the socialist calculation problem.

Now on deck, the Best RI of an Idea You Should Forget Essay Award. While none of you schmucks separately submitted one, I will nonetheless award this prize to wumbotarian, besttrousers, and integralds for their response to Why We Should Forget the Long Run Neutrality of Money which culminated in the production of an extended array of interesting graphs and regressions in the fiat thread, findings largely summarized in the post here.

For the last of the irregular awards, we have the Mod's Rents Award, which of course goes to my own post, Why You Should Forget About Meta-Analyses.

Now it's time for the Mod's Choice awards. These awards are decided by a vote among the r/badeconomics moderating staff.

In third place, we have phillipcheesy on Why You Should Forget About Walrasian Equilibrium.

In second place, we have iwasbeingfacetious on Why You Should Forget that You Can Grow Away Your Problems.

Finally, without further ado, we have the first place winner and the recipient of the contest's grand prize, usrname42 with Why You Should Forget the Kaldor-Hicks Criterion.

Congratulations to all the winners and especially to usrname42! Everyone linked here has been awarded reddit gold, while usrname42 will additionally have $100 given to his or her charity of choice. Edit: usrname42 chose to send the donation to the Against Malaria Foundation.

Thanks to all who submitted for participating -- and if you, dear reader, haven't checked them out already, I strongly recommend giving some of these essays a read!

PS - there's no statute of limitations on RIs, feel free to give any of these essays a go folks.