Alan Krueger’s Academic Record
Steven L. Taylor
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011
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Brad Plummer gives it a look for those who might be interested: A closer look at Alan Krueger’s academic work.
Krueger has been nominated to replace Austan Goolsbee as the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers.
About Steven L. Taylor
Steven L. Taylor is a Professor of Political Science and a College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored
A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging since 2003 (originally at the now defunct Poliblog).
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I like that list. It has a lot of “how the world really works” stuff, as opposed to “all else being equal” abstract modeling.
Sorry, Chief, but anyone who supports a VAT automatically gets a F-minus grade from the University of Economic Reality.
@Tsar Nicholas:
That’s interesting. I’ve always hated the VAT because I thought it was a sneaky tax, one that fooled people into thinking they were getting a net reduction. I got that primarily because so many rightists said “let’s get a VAT and reduce our taxes!”
I don’t know. Maybe I’m starting to turn, and I’ll get on board with sneaky. It would be best to bring our tax revenues up with traditional tools … but not much seems to be happening on that front.
For someone purported to be a labor specialist, he appears to have done little work on mass unemployment. Skimming his work, he appears to be in the same New-Keynsian/Neo-classical mold as virtually every other economist in Washington.
Question: how can a student of macroeconomic schools which don’t even acknowledge the existence of involuntary unemployment be an expert on employment?