ARNOLD KLING
August 14, 2011
The Top Political Contributors
August 11, 2011
Gender and the New Commanding Heights
August 11, 2011
Jamie Galbraith Makes an Assumption
August 11, 2011
Macroeconometrics: The Science of Hubris
August 10, 2011
Real and Nominal Bond Yields
BRYAN CAPLAN
August 14, 2011
The Effect of Thumb Sucking on Income
August 12, 2011
The Voice of Cold, Hard Truth to All Would-Be Educators
August 12, 2011
Ability, Morality, and Prosperity: A Paper and a Report
August 11, 2011
The Theory of Time and Frittering
August 10, 2011
Male Variance and the Remnants of the Gender Gap
DAVID HENDERSON
August 9, 2011
Hayek in "Unbroken", Part Two
August 8, 2011
Hayek in "Unbroken"
August 5, 2011
James Bovard on the Peace Corps
August 4, 2011
Summers Way Off on FDR and 1941
August 3, 2011
The "Amazon" Tax
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I find it hilarious that 1 in 5 Americans are allegedly "undecided" on this question. It's hard to even know what "undecided" means in this context. Is there some additional information about the nature of phone books that is needed to answer this question?
I think I would trust a GMU economist, but the economics profession as a whole gets pretty low marks in my book.
How can a ligitimate economist completely ignore the unsustainable borrowing our government relies on? I do not pretend to know what our debt limit is, but economists should certainly be trying to find out and come up with some contingency plans when we reach it.
How can a ligitimate economist evaluate a stimulus package by starting with a dollar that is ready to be spent rather than looking at what happens to our balance of payments when we have to borrow the money from overseas?
How can a ligitimate economist stop evaluating the stimulus package when the immediate stimulation is done but ignore the problem of paying back the loans in coming years?
I have heard these people talk and they are not stupid. There must be something in what they are taught that makes them so narrow in their thinking.
The membership of the AEA played a central role in creating this economics Titanic.
And most of them had essentially no idea what they were creating.
They've knocked over and smashed the crystal case, and now they tell us they are just the ones to clean up the crystal shop.
If _only_ we could keep the AEA economists away from the economy.