Saturday, April 19, 2014

“A prominent Republican economist”….wha?


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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