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I agree that disentangling personal financial incentives in the intellectual space of ideas is probably the largest challenge of our generation- I certainly don
by drcode 8y ago
I agree that disentangling personal financial incentives in the intellectual space of ideas is probably the largest challenge of our generation- I certainly don't have any good answers for how we can prevent PR efforts from shaping our personal opinions.
That said, there are lots of good insights to be had by studying economists with a libertarian bent, and I frankly have a hard time finding any economic writing based on a different economic tradition that is very compelling - Some of the writing of Jaron Lanier is pretty good, but he's not an economist. (I guess lots of folks like Thomas Piketty, but I have a hard time personally getting much insight out of his work, for whatever reason.)
- davidw 8y ago> there are lots of good insights to be had by studying economists with a libertarian bent I actually get a lot of insight when economists go against their political 'tribe'. Paul Krugman on cheap labor, for instance: http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_dismal_science/1997/03/in_praise_of_cheap_labor.html http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_dismal_science/19... Or Greg Mankiw writing in favor of a carbon tax. That's not to say they're wrong when, say, the libertarian economist argues against some regulation, or someone like Krugman argues for it, just that it's more 'the usual'.