What exactly is “a prominent Republican economist”?
I noticed this descriptive phrase in an obvious “straight news” story
in the New York Times, it wasn’t an opinion column.
If the author had meant “a prominent economist who is a Republican,” or
“an economist who is a prominent Republican,” or something like that, I guess I’d
understand well enough.
But let’s not blandly pretend that it’s OK to politically
compartmentalize what a legitimate professional economist does.
If what we think we have—or what we really have—is “Democratic
economics” and “Republican economics,” then we don’t really have economics at
all.
We just have another way of spinning doctrinaire, partisan politics.
And we already have more than enough of that….
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