Arnold Kling

Author of nonfiction books, primarily in the area of political economy. In a previous life, I started one of the first commercial web sites. Ph.D in economics

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Arnold Kling

Nov 28 · 11 min

Paul Krugman and Tyler Cowen, annotated

Notes to help non-economists follow the conversation

When I recommended this conversation between economists Paul Krugman and Tyler Cowen, I said that if I were using it as a teaching tool I would…

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Arnold Kling

Nov 28 · 3 min

If I Ran the (Academic) Zoo

Getting more out of our best intellectual talent

I believe that we could do better at developing and mobilizing high intellectual talent,and I have a couple of suggestions. One suggestion is for private-sector moonshot…

Arnold Kling

Nov 27 · 4 min

What Gets Expensive, and Why?

When hopes exceed results

Why are we seeing dramatic declines in costs in many areas of the economy and such steep increases in others? How much of the cost growth is unmeasured improvement in quality and how much is growing…

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