by Tunku Varadarajan Info
Tunku Varadarajan is a national affairs correspondent and writer at large for The Daily Beast. He is also the Virginia Hobbs Carpenter Fellow in Journalism at Stanford's Hoover Institution and a professor at NYU's Stern Business School. He is a former assistant managing editor at The Wall Street Journal. (Follow him on Twitter here.)
Enter your email address:
Enter the recipients' email addresses, separated by commas:
Enter your email address:
Enter the recipients' email addresses, separated by commas:
Canvassing 100 industry insiders and academics, Tunku Varadarajan identifies the most important writers on business and economics who are helping us navigate the turbulent times.
Has there ever been an era in modern history in which the popular thirst for economic explanation has been greater than it is now? The Great Recession has thrust economics into the heart of our politics. Deficits, taxes, spending, debt, the yuan, outsourcing, unemployment, health-care reform, social security, financial regulation—these are all economic questions that will be fought over in the mid-term elections in November—not to mention in 2012, when President Obama comes up for re-election.
Gallery: America’s Top Economic & Business Commentators
Acknowledging the centrality of economics in our public discourse, The Daily Beast has set out to identify the most important commentators on the subject in the American media, canvassing a total of 100 academics, Wall Streeters and managers in industry. A few ground rules: We have limited our list to journalist-commentators, excluding academic economists who write frequently for the popular media (such as Nouriel Roubini of NYU, John Taylor of the Hoover Institution and Stanford, Jagdish Bhagwati of Columbia, Robert Frank of Cornell and others.). This is not a list of the most consequential economists, for therein lies mayhem! Instead, it is a list of those who interpret our economic life for us.
We have included the Financial Times as part of the “American” media, and also—in spite of our “no academics” rule—included Paul Krugman of Princeton (and The New York Times). It was the view of far too many of those we canvassed that excluding him would be, as one professor put it, “very silly indeed.”
Tunku Varadarajan is a national affairs correspondent and writer at large for The Daily Beast. He is also the Virginia Hobbs Carpenter Fellow in Journalism at Stanford's Hoover Institution and a professor at NYU's Stern Business School. He is a former assistant managing editor at The Wall Street Journal. (Follow him on Twitter here.)
Get a head start with the Morning Scoop email. It's your Cheat Sheet with must reads from across the Web. Get it.
For inquiries, please contact The Daily Beast at editorial@thedailybeast.com.
Enter your email address:
Enter the recipients' email addresses, separated by commas:
James Grant? Really? Wow..... Yeah the man can write, there's no doubt about that. But he's just a standard goldbug-Austrian who can't understand even a single case where money-printing makes sense. He claims we should have the money supply fixed to a constant supply of gold (when Milton Friedman, whose libertarian credentials are unquestioned, would tell you that's crap). Grant would have you believe that money printing always makes the aggregate poorer, but if that's the case, why has he never been steadfast in calling for all-out money destruction...purchasing power (the source of prosperity for guys like Grant) would increase if the Fed took actions to substantially reduce the money supply... the reason he doesn't suggest this is that it's a terrible idea that would hurt mostly everyone, but the poor especially. Goldbug-Austrians like Grant also have trouble explaining basic phenomena such as unemployment fluctuations along the business cycle. And worst of all, they choose to be thoroughly UN-rigorous...they just like to say events validate their theories without actually running any detailed studies, let alone run basic regressions. On a positive note, I'm glad to see Ritholtz on this list.
Thank you. As a first time user, your comment has been submitted for review. It can take anywhere from a few hours to a day or two for your comment to be reviewed, depending on the time of week and the volume of comments we receive.
Please log in to leave comments.
Left-Wing Crazies Take Their Turn
John Avlon's new book Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America is available now by Beast Books both on the Web and in paperback. He is also the author of Independent Nation: How Centrists Can Change American Politics and a CNN contributor. Previously, he served as chief speechwriter for New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and was a columnist and associate editor for The New York Sun.
New Questions in JonBenet's Murder
Christine Pelisek is staff reporter for The Daily Beast, covering crime. She previously was a reporter at the LA Weekly, where she covered crime for the last five years. In 2008, she won three Los Angeles Press Club awards, one for her investigative story on the Grim Sleeper.
The Science of Good and Evil
Sam Harris is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation. His next book, The Moral Landscape, will be published in October. His website is www.samharris.org.
Layoffs Lead to Near-Record Profits
By laying off workers and cutting costs.
Experts: Rahm Can't Run
Law requires Chicago residency for a year.
Nobel Awarded for In Vitro Fertilization
To "father of the test tube baby."
America's Prime Minister
Tunku Varadarajan is a national affairs correspondent and writer at large for The Daily Beast. He is also the Virginia Hobbs Carpenter Fellow in Journalism at Stanford's Hoover Institution and a professor at NYU's Stern Business School. He is a former assistant managing editor at The Wall Street Journal. (Follow him on Twitter here.)
The GOP's Purity Pledge
Tunku Varadarajan is a national affairs correspondent and writer at large for The Daily Beast. He is also the Virginia Hobbs Carpenter Fellow in Journalism at Stanford's Hoover Institution and a professor at NYU's Stern Business School. He is a former assistant managing editor at The Wall Street Journal. (Follow him on Twitter here.)
What Did Velma Hart Expect?
Tunku Varadarajan is a national affairs correspondent and writer at large for The Daily Beast. He is also the Virginia Hobbs Carpenter Fellow in Journalism at Stanford's Hoover Institution and a professor at NYU's Stern Business School. He is a former assistant managing editor at The Wall Street Journal. (Follow him on Twitter here.)
Sign me up for The Daily Beast's daily news emails and breaking news alerts.
Sign me up for The Yes List, weekly cultural recommendations from The Daily Beast.
I'd like to receive e-mail notifications as:
Sign me up for occasional special offers sent by The Daily Beast on behalf of select sponsors, and for occasional special offers from IAC companies.
Partner Sites: Expedia| Hotels| Hotwire| MerchantCircle| Reference| Thesaurus| Urbanspoon
or
Register using Facebook to share comments, stories, and other activity easily with your Facebook feed.
Lost your password? Check the box, enter your Email Address above, then click Submit, and we'll email you a link to change your password.
Lost your username? Check the box, enter your Email Address above, then click Submit, and we'll email you your username.
Not Registered?
or
Read Full Article »