Scholarly Comments on Academic Economics

An Economist’s Most Regrettable Statement

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Abstract

In response to the invitation to speak of my most regretted statements, I speak of just one, my lamentable prediction about the outcome of the 1988 presidential election. I remark on the rashness and naiveté of my prediction.