Kevin Hassett Is Betting Corporate-Tax Cuts Will Deliver Growth

Kevin Hassett evidently has not received the memo that economics is the dismal science. The ebullient chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers is relishing the intellectual feast of applying to policymaking the predictive tools of a science that was blindsided by the Great Recession. Economists, like other scientists, learn things even when — actually, especially when — they are surprised. What must surprise Hassett today is that acrimony has infected even economists' arguments ...