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Only 7% of surveyed top economists disagreed with the statement that a wealth tax would be much more difficult to enforce than the existing tax code. https://w

• throw0101a 5y ago
  > We invited our US panel to express their views on three separate issues related to the wealth tax: […] And how was the criteria for this panel chosen? What would a random sampling of, say, NBER affiliated scholars give? Given previous surveys from Chicago Booth were done, it seems that there's an ideological slant to those they ask for advice: * https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/05/ideology-and-economics/ https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/05/ideology-and-ec... Further, given how wrong the Chicago school has been on macroeconomics for the last few decades, I would question anything coming out of there. Fama and French for example have done good work on markets, but they are and were wrong on deficit spending and stimulus since 2009.
  • holograham 5y ago
    dont know anything about the economics panel/survey but citing Krugman on HN is pretty weak given his most infamous quote: "The Internet's effect on the economy is no greater than the fax machine's. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/paul-krugman-internets-effect-economy/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/paul-krugman-internets-eff...