Conscience Warrior Newsfeed: February 2014

Paul Krugman

It works like this: Conservatives in general, and conservative economists in particular, often have a very narrow vision of what economics is all about — namely supply, demand, and incentives. Anything that interferes with the sacred functioning of markets or reduces the incentive to produce must be a bad thing; any time a progressive economist supports policies that don’t fit neatly into this orthodoxy, it must be because he doesn’t understand Econ 101. And conservative economists are so sure of this that they can’t be bothered to actually read what the progressives write — at the first hint of deviation from laissez-faire, they stop paying attention and begin debating with the stupid progressive in their mind, not the real economist out there.

Alicublog

Remember when conservatives considered Costco as American as cheeseburgers and credit default swaps?

Robert Solow's response to Greg Mankiw's essay in defense of top earners, and Dr Mankiw's response to that response

Paul Krugman does an back-of-the-envelope general-equilibrium analysis of the incentive effects of the Affordable Care Act, based on the Congressional Budget Office report on the future budget and economic conditions.

Matthew Yglesias

Just because you’re a successful businessman doesn’t mean your policy ideas make any sense.

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