Arnold Kling is a fairly well known academic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Kling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Kling I read this blog post as "t

Arnold Kling is a fairly well known academic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Kling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Kling I read this blog post as "thinking out loud on the internet". It's something I see done quite a bit in the econ blogosphere. Sometimes a post like this will prompt responses from other econ bloggers (Greg Mankiw, Tyler Cowen, etc.). Sometimes not. It's not meant to be an essay.