Scholarly Comments on Academic Economics

Volume 10, Issue 2, May 2013

In Memoriam (pdf)

In this issue:

Why Is There No Milton Friedman Today?

A symposium co-sponsored by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University

Imagine that someone with all the endowments of a Milton Friedman were born in the 1960s or 1970s. Is it conceivable that such a person would develop into a ‘Milton Friedman’ like we know the actual Friedman to have been, including his academic eminence and his eloquent and influential advocacy of classical liberalism? Here leading economists address the question: Why is there no Milton Friedman today?

Prologue to the symposium

Contributions:

Other paper

Regression Costs Fall, Mining Ratios Rise, Publication Bias Looms, and Techniques Get Fancier: Martin Paldam reflects on these trends in empirical macroeconomics.

EJW Audio

Call for papers

EJW fosters open exchange. We welcome proposals and submissions of diverse viewpoints.

Download entire May 2013 issue (2.6MB pdf)

Table of contents (pdf) with links to articles