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Crooks and Liars — ... Calculated Risk: Certain economists need to do some serious soul searching.  Instead of leaving it to us to guess why their analysis was so flawed, I believe ...

Why I Was Wrong...
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — ... Calculated Risk: Hoocoodanode?: Earlier today, I saw Greg "Bush economist" Mankiw was a little touchy about a Krugman blog comment. My reaction was that Mankiw has some explaining to do. A key embarrassment for the economics profession in general, and Bush economists Greg Mankiw and Eddie Lazear in particular, is how they missed the biggest economic story of our times.... This was a typical response from the right (this is from a post by Professor Arnold Kling) in August 2006: ...

The Best and the Brightest Meme -- Eight Years Too Late?
Angry Bear — Ken Houghton CR beat me to commenting on this Mankiw whine post, partially because I couldn't think of anything reasonable to say about it. (CR could. That's why he gets the big bucks.) But now that CR has done the heavy lifting, let's look at the other aspect: Mankiw's standard: Based a standard ranking of economists' academic accomplishments as of October 2008...[emphasis mine] 11. Larry Summers 21. Greg Mankiw 35. Ben Bernanke 99. Eddie Lazear 132. Glenn Hubbard 249. Harvey ...

They Can See Clearly Now
Opinionator — ... , despite talk radio hosts saying it was merely overblown and inaccurate rhetoric by Democrats and despite Phil Gramm’s instance that those who complained were whiners with fiscal mental problems.” So, who saw it coming back then — or, perhaps more important, who didn’t? The econoblogger Calculated Risk asks the heavy hitters of the blogosphere to fess up : “I think certain economists need to do some serious soul searching. Instead of leaving it to us to guess why their analysis was so flawed, I believe the time has come for [Greg] Mankiw, [Arnold ] Kling and many other ...