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(August 28, 2009 07:50 AM, by Arnold Kling) Many of these links come from the indispensable Mark Thoma. First, we have Gender and banking: Are women better loan officers? by Thorsten Beck and others. And yes, it does strengthen my priors. The Fed's profits are turning higher. Perhaps...
Paul Krugman tells how economists got it all wrong - The Curious Capitalist
curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com — Paul Krugman has an epic, and really great, dissection of the state of economics in Sunday's New... York Times Magazine —headlined "How Did Economists Get It So Wrong"—that has already gone up online (thanks to Daniel Lippmann for letting me know about ... (more) Paul Krugman tells how economists got it all wrong - The ...
The State of Macro
crossingwallstreet.com — Paul Krugman has a very good article in the New York Times on the state of macroeconomics... and how the profession got blindsided by the credit crisis. As an economics writer, there simply isn’t anyone better at bringing complex issues to the average ... (more) The State of Macro
Krugman on the debt
cafehayek.com — Political Math takes Krugman to task . PM does it very well.... (more) Krugman on the debt
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Arnold Kling Calls Me an Ideologue and/or Ranter
Econbrowser — From Arnold Kling's entry yesterday: Kwak goes on to endorse Chinn's ideological rant that the Bush tax cuts caused the financial crisis. Yes, I know that Chinn is speaking in the tone of economic analysis rather than a rant, but only a left-wing ideologue would take the thesis seriously. I bet Kwak cannot find a blog post of Chinn's where he made a policy point against Democrats/liberals or for Republicans/conservatives. Where Kling is responding to James Kwak's assertion: "[Menzie] Chinn is not given to ideological ranting." ...

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