I’m taking nominations for the best examples of dismal economic scientists.
While I wait for your suggestions, I’m going to offer two of my own nominations: Tyler Cowen and Paul Romer.I would rule Tyler Cowen out as an economist. IMHO, he is a shill for oligarchic "democracy" based on classical liberalism.
Romer is only suffering from a curable cognitive-affective bias, a common syndrome called "scientism." Maybe reading Paul Feyerabend would help him get over it.
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David F. Ruccio | Professor of Economics University of Notre Dame Notre Dame
Not strictly an economist, but how about the celebrity neoconservative empire-cheerleading historian and self-hyped economic thinker Niall Ferguson?
ReplyDeleteOther than the bigoted rantings of Sam Harris, you will never hear more pseudo-intellectual nonsense and bile in so little time than tuning in to hear Niall Ferguson.