Mulligan used to do good work on intergenerational mobility and work performance back in the 90s.
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Eugene Coyle <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Marsh, > > Three things: > > 1. When Casey Mulligan publishes his screeds in the NYTimes feature > ECONOMIX, readers comment on them. Sometimes the comments are quite detailed > and seem knowledgable. If you can still find those screeds pertaining to the > subject of the book, you might find something useful there. I have a vague > memory of one of these in recent months. > > 2. I hope you'll tell us on Pen-l if you have anything to report. > > 3. In terms of measuring Mulligan's credibility, check out his Op Ed in the > NYT of Oct 10, 2008. This was intended, apparently, to impact that year's > election. Mulligan states forcefully that the economy "is strong." His > concluding sentence: "So, if you are not employed by the financial industry > (94 percent of you are not), don’t worry. The current unemployment rate of > 6.1 percent is not alarming, and we should reconsider whether it is worth it > to spend $700 billion to bring it down to 5.9 percent." > > Gene Coyle > > > On Dec 21, 2012, at 9:24 AM, Marshall Feldman wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I just noticed that one of my students wrote an enthusiastic post about >> Casey Mulligan's new book, The Redistribution Recession, on the forum of my >> labor economics class. As much as it pains me to say so, I'll probably have >> to read the book. As far as I can tell, the book's thesis is standard >> Chicago fare: stimulus spending created disincentives that made the >> recession worse. >> >> I think this is an important book, since it's likely to frame narratives >> coming from the right. A Google search reveals that Prof. Mulligan has >> already been on Fox News several times, most recently promoting his book. >> And Fox Nation is citing his work and others as "research shows ...." >> >> Are any of you familiar with the book? Do you know of any accessible >> published debates to which I might direct my student? Or other material? >> (The first link above is to a blog post discussing the CBO's report on the >> number of jobs created by the stimulus. But this student has difficulty >> reconciling macro and micro, so I'd like to give her something that more >> directly addresses the issues of incentives, etc.) >> >> Thanks. >> >> Marsh Feldman >> _______________________________________________ >> pen-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
