Yikes! Twice in one week I’m going to criticize a prominent economist. Today’s subject is Michael J. Boskin’s article in The Wall Street Journal, entitled “How to Stop Lurching From One Budget Crisis to the Next.”
Boskin, the former chairman of President George H.W. Bush’s Council of Economic Advisors, is what one may call a “centrist” (sort of like the president he served). The problem sometimes with trying to forge a centrist path and placate both sides in a public policy debate is that one ends up sounding timid and diffident. So it is with Boskin’s most recent contribution.
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