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Arnold Kling

By Arnold Kling, Aug 9 2009

Mark Thoma highlights a story that I had missed–a bargain between the pharmaceutical industry and the Obama Administration on health care reform.

Progressivism--My Most Generous Interpretation

Inspired by Tyler Cowen, let me offer my most generous characterization of progressivism: Progressives are the proud heirs to a tradition of experiments in public policy that brought about significant social improvements. Its antecedents go back before the Civil War to the anti-slavery, temperance, and women's moveme...

Aug 10 2009

Austrian Economics

An Alternative to Hydraulic Macro

Arnold Kling

Mainstream macroeconomics is "hydraulic." There is something called "aggregate demand" which you adjust by pumping in fiscal and monetary expansion. I wish to reject this whole concept of macroeconomics. Instead, I want to get economists to think about unemployment in terms of the economic calculation problem. [Be...

Aug 9 2009

Economics of Health Care

One-Party State Watch

Arnold Kling

Mark Thoma highlights a story that I had missed--a bargain between the pharmaceutical industry and the Obama Administration on health care reform.

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