Along with the hedge fund bomber, over 400 other economists have endorsed Romney economics, under a statement that begins:
We enthusiastically endorse Governor Mitt Romney’s economic plan to create jobs and restore economic growth while returning America to its tradition of economic freedom. The plan is based on proven principles: a more contained and less intrusive federal government, a greater reliance on the private sector, a broad expansion of opportunity without government favors for special interests, and respect for the rule of law including the decision-making authority of states and localities.Other names that you might recognize:
Gary Becker, Nobel laureate
Robert Lucas, Nobel laureate
Robert Mundell, Nobel laureate
Edward Prescott, Nobel laureate
Michael Boskin, Stanford University
John P. Cochran, Metropolitan State University of Denver
Martin Feldstein, Harvard University
Phil Gramm, Former U.S. Senator, Texas
Wendy Gramm, Mercatus Center, retired
Kevin Hassett, American Enterprise Institute
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, American Action Forum
Anne Krueger, Former World Bank Chief Economist
Arthur Laffer, Laffer Associates
John Lott, Burke, VA
Yuri Maltsev, Carthage College
Greg Mankiw, Harvard University
Henry Manne, George Mason University Law School
Allan Meltzer, Carnegie Mellon University
Jeffrey Miron, Harvard University
Lee Ohanian, UCLA
Mark Perry, University of Michigan-Flint, American Enterprise Institute
Michael Porter, Harvard University
Mario Rizzo, New York University
George Shultz, Former Secretary of the Treasury
Phillip Swagel, University of Maryland
John Taylor, Stanford University
Karen Vaughn, George Mason University
Yong Yang, Ford Motor Company
Robert Zoellick, Former President of the World Bank
I must say it was a surprise to see Yuri Maltsev on that list.
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DeleteJohn Cochran? Yuri Maltsev?? Mario Rizzo???
ReplyDeleteWhat is going on here????
What economic plan? The plan that raises the debt by $2.6 trillion?
ReplyDeleteWho in their right mind would lend their name to this garbage?
'Sorry to see Jeff Miron on the list...
ReplyDeleteYuri Malstev???? WTH!!
ReplyDeleteJohn Lott????
ReplyDeleteShattered Idols, guys....
LOOK AT ALL THESE MEMBERS OF THE ANTI-ROTHBARDIAN CULT. CLEARLY RIZZO, MALTSEV, jOHN COCHRAN, AND JEF MIRON CAN NO LONGER BE READ. THEY ARE TRAITORS AND WE MUST BURN THEIR BOOKS.
ReplyDeleteLOL it's glorious how cultish the LvMI internet kiddos are.
LOL @ Yuri Maltsev and Mario Rizzo.
ReplyDelete"Mario Rizzo, New York University"
ReplyDeleteSome Austrian that guy turned out to be. I'm not saying one cannot engage in practical politics and even make compromises, but some compromises are complete abdications of what one stands for.
Zachary Plaxco, one need not be cultish to recognize a sell out.
ReplyDeleteHow has he sold out on his economic principles?
ReplyDeleteWhy does political compromise have anything to do with his economic works?
It's not like LvMI won't make announcements regarding his new book (IIRC he is writing one, or it might just be Glen Whitman?. It's not like he said Romney's economics are good. It's not like he renounced Austrian analysis. He made a pragmatic utilitarian decision. Something Ludwig von Mises would have (and did do, read Ebeling's work on Mises' time as a bureaucrat) done, something Carl Menger would have done, something Bohm-Bowark would have done, something Israel Kirzner would have done, something Hayek would have done, and many, many more.
I mean shit, Rothbard voted for Herbet Walker Bush. You guys never dare mention that for fear of disrespecting the all-powerful one.
Rothbard was the biggest sell-out of them all. From flip-flopping from the Old Right, to the New Left, to paleo-conservatives, to a politician named Ron Paul. And Rothbard has no excuses, he was a principled natural rights theorist who behaved in a way that he himself defined immorally.
Then again, Rothbard wasn't as good of an economist as Rizzo. His biggest accomplishment was restating Human Action in a way neoclassical trained economists could understand (selling out from the original stuff to make it more appealing to the politically popular school) and in doing so he redefined, incorrectly, austrian monetary theory. And his works on the hisroty of economic thought are horrible. He either specifically, deliberately lied about many thinkers, or he refused to read their work and created easy to dismantle caricatures. Now that, my friends, is a sell-out. He's no less of a political opportunist than Paul Krugman. And at least Krugman had original, good work in economics (his trade theory, which if any austrian disagrees with they'd also be against free trade
"Dont believe everything you read." - should be an obvious personal rule, shouldn't it ?
ReplyDeleteI would look into the specific statements on the subject by any people on the list that you may wonder about. Clarify their position. - -
Personally, I think voting is a joke and a waste of time - nothing more than giving approval/legitimacy to a system that is a complete fraud. Both candidates are thieves, liars, and traitors to the US Constitution - they both approve of NDAA, for example ). I can't believe that anyone of sound mind or some personal experience, would bother. Admittedly, it took many years & many elections to finally see this.