George Will seems to like Goolsbee.

(I would dispute his unsupported assertion that economics as a discipline has moved to the right.)

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Economics is the only academic discipline that in recent decades has moved in the direction that America and much of the world has moved, to the right. Goolsbee no doubt has lots of dubious ideas -- he is, after all, a Democrat -- about how government can creatively fiddle with the market's allocation of wealth and opportunity. But he seems to be the sort of person -- amiable, empirical and reasonable -- you would want at the elbow of a Democratic president, if such there must be.

Did economics move to the right? | Posted October 4, 2007 03:50 PM by John Irons