unicorns of the intellectual right

[dherd]

First, while there are many conservative economists with appointments at top universities, publications in top journals, and so on, they have no influence on conservative policymaking. What the right wants are charlatans and cranks, in (conservative) Greg Mankiw’s famous phrase. If they use actual economists, they use them the way a drunkard uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.

Obviously none of this is true in Kudlow’s case. He’s basically a TV personality, whose shtick is preaching the magic of tax cuts, and nothing – not the Kansas debacle, not the Clinton boom, not the strong job creation that followed Obama’s 2013 tax hike – will change his mind. And it’s not just that he’s incurious and inflexible: selling snake oil is his business model, and he can’t change without losing everything. And that’s the kind of guy Republicans want.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/08/...ight-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region

 

[ohio herd]

First, while there are many conservative economists with appointments at top universities, publications in top journals, and so on, they have no influence on conservative policymaking. What the right wants are charlatans and cranks, in (conservative) Greg Mankiw’s famous phrase. If they use actual economists, they use them the way a drunkard uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.

Obviously none of this is true in Kudlow’s case. He’s basically a TV personality, whose shtick is preaching the magic of tax cuts, and nothing – not the Kansas debacle, not the Clinton boom, not the strong job creation that followed Obama’s 2013 tax hike – will change his mind. And it’s not just that he’s incurious and inflexible: selling snake oil is his business model, and he can’t change without losing everything. And that’s the kind of guy Republicans want.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/08/...ight-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region

From a Forbes article about your author.

Jan 13, 2015 - Paul Krugman has become an embarrassment to the economics profession. Despite his Nobel Prize and despite his previous high regard in the profession, his twice-a-week editorials in The New York Times are causing even progressive economists to treat him as somewhat of a kook. Plus he thinks that debt is good.

 

[HerdBuckeye]

.....plus he thinks debt it good”

Hey guess who else likes debt. DJT

 

[extragreen]

From a Forbes article about your author.

Jan 13, 2015 - Paul Krugman has become an embarrassment to the economics profession. Despite his Nobel Prize and despite his previous high regard in the profession, his twice-a-week editorials in The New York Times are causing even progressive economists to treat him as somewhat of a kook. Plus he thinks that debt is good.

Names of these progressive economists who think Krugman is a kook?

 

[ohio herd]

Names of these progressive economists who think Krugman is a kook?

read the article EG here is a name Jeffery Sachs who is not a conservative. Point is ,Kudlow is well qualified, and if I were going to attack him I wouldn't use your boy Krugman to do it.

 

[extragreen]

read the article EG here is a name Jeffery Sachs who is not a conservative. Point is ,Kudlow is well qualified, and if I were going to attack him I wouldn't use your boy Krugman to do it.

Paul Krugman has become an embarrassment to the economics profession. .

That's a lie.

even progressive economists to treat him as somewhat of a kook.

Your source says economists (plural), name them.

 

[ohio herd]

That's a lie.



Your source says economists (plural), name them.

I didn't say that the article did. Furthermore, I listed a prominent liberal economist who is quoted as saying that about him. I am not going to waste time finding others who feel that way about him. Sachs is enough. When it comes to economists on either side of the spectrum you can always find some who will have a negative opinion about another. The fact that you or someone doesn't like Kudlow doesn't negate that he is qualified for the position.

 

[extragreen]

I didn't say that the article did.

It's still a lie.

Furthermore, I listed a prominent liberal economist who is quoted as saying that about him.

Nowhere in that article did any progressive economist, including sachs, say that krugman was treated by progressive economists as somewhat kooky. Your moron libertarian author said that.