Can We Trust Economists?
Saturday, January 17th, 2009How does one differentiate between facts-based analysis and personal opinions? Uwe Reinhardt, an economics professor at Princeton says Matters are worse when, wittingly or unwittingly, economists infuse their analysis with their own (or a political client’s) preferred ideology. Consider, for example, President Bill Clinton’s 1993-94 health-reform plan. In this plan, President Clinton proposed a mandate [...]