Squandering their Cognitive Surplus

Arnold Kling

By Arnold Kling, Sep 4 2008

Mama, don’t let your boy grow up to be a campaign economic adviser. Look at what happened to Jason Furman and Doug Holtz-Eakin, two very nice, very smart guys. Because they are on different sides of the Presidential campaign, they try really hard to make one another look bad.

Alas, they succeed.

Pointer from Greg Mankiw.

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When phone companies, ISPs, cable companies, and the like offer "teaser rates" ("$50 for the first three months"), I assume the worst. If their regular rate were good, they would tell me upfront. So if they won't tell me what they're real rate is, I figure it has to be bad. In fact, whether a get a teaser offer, I...

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The Binary Fallacy

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When I was at the APSA meetings, the famed Arthur Lupia gave yet another speech in defense of voter competence. He offered a long list of arguments. But his most important mistake, in my view, was his claim that voters have a simple problem: They merely need to decide which of the two major candidates they like more....

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Economic Education

Squandering their Cognitive Surplus

Arnold Kling

Mama, don't let your boy grow up to be a campaign economic adviser. Look at what happened to Jason Furman and Doug Holtz-Eakin, two very nice, very smart guys. Because they are on different sides of the Presidential campaign, they try really hard to make one another look bad. Alas, they succeed. Pointer from Greg M...

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