The great Warren Brookes (1928-1991) joked in The Economy In Mind about the return of an economist from overseas, and a quip from a U.S. Passport official about perhaps not letting him back into the United States. Something about the damage done by economists.
Edmund Phelps, who died two weeks ago, would have likely passed muster with Brookes. Among other things, Phelps had long ago made a case for the correlation between individuals working more the less they were taxed.
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