Who is your Favorite Economist?

How about a running thread for a change, there peeps?

Love back to you.

Richard Gill

fine, my favorite running economist, who also runs:

Steven D. Levitt

Didn't wejo or rojo graduate with an economics degree? I'd like to hear their philosophy on important subject matter.

They seem pretty quiet for a website they started.

Why of course, isn't everyone here on the letsrun board a big fan of AnEconomist?

What happened to Moneyed? anyone remember that prick?

He was obviously banned.

Without Greenspan, the boom of the 90s would have been considerably smaller. His realization that we could achieve higher GDP growth without excessive inflation allowed for the massive growth that we experienced. He has my vote.

This is interesting, I have recently been asked the same question during my college recruitment trips. Coincidence, I think not.

Milton Freidman, a alum of RU.

Paul Krugman

yes, Friedman would be a strong 2 on my list.

1) Mises

2) Bastiat

3) Friedman

If you linked all the economists that ever existed in a line and encircled the globe with them they still wouldn't reach a conclusion - Anon

Brooks Robinson

I love peeps wrote:

I'll start,

Steven D. Levitt

what a cliché, you probably think that because you read "Freakanomics" you are some sort of an enlightened individual.

please.

great spoof

Harry Kooter wrote:

Without Greenspan, the boom of the 90s would have been considerably smaller. His realization that we could achieve higher GDP growth without excessive inflation allowed for the massive growth that we experienced. He has my vote.

But you are only telling one side of the story. A lot of the credit for the 90s growth should go to Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and the fiscal policies of the Clinton Administration. Rubin convinced Clinton to raise taxes to decrease the budget deficit. They raised the taxes of the top 2% of taxpayers in 1993. The Republicans said that it would be a disaster and none supported it. A smaller deficit means less government borrowing and this allowed Greenspan and the Fed to lower interest rates, reducing crowding out, and increasing private investment and output.

A tight budget plus easy money brought growth without too much inflation. Greenspan made a mistake in backing the Bush tax cuts. Bush should have left everything alone and let the Fed use monetary policy. The last few years have shown the Republicans to be hypocrites when it comes to fiscal policy. Keynes and Hayek.

Murray Rothbard or F.A. Hayek. Most of you have probably never heard of them - educate yourselves.

You're a liberal fool masquerading as someone who knows what he's talking about. Gingrich's GOP forced Clinton to accede to tax CUTS in 1994, which, along with accommodative monetary policy, paved the way for the late 90s boom. Supply side fiscal policy works, and it's working again! Oh, and by the way, there's a far easier way to balance the budget. Spend less! Novel idea that was lost on both Bush II and Clinton.

As far as the original topic, who can be surprised by Peep's favorite economist since Peeps regurgitates Freakonomics all over this board? Oh, and I love the way Peeps throws around the term 'fiat,' as if though that establishes his credibility.

Rothbard is incredible. "Ethics of Liberty" totally changed my political and economic outlook.