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Friday, January 10, 2025

Declining Influence of Economists

Economists Are in the Wilderness. Can They Find a Way Back to Influence?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/business/economy/economists-politics-trump.html
Economists have long helped to shape policy on issues like taxes and health care. But flawed forecasts and arcane language have cost them credibility.

Who is right about ‘Maganomics’: bearish economists or bullish investors?
https://www.ft.com/content/76ee5977-1f16-470b-86a5-400209aad5a3
Equity market optimism about president-elect’s impact contrasts with warnings over hit to GDP growth.


Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy
https://www.chicagobooth.edu/review/capitalisnt-has-thinking-like-economist-distorted-our-politics 

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