http://truthonthemarket.com/2008/03/03/is-austan-goolsbee-overrated/ Academic commentary on law, business, economics and more Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:48:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://truthonthemarket.com/2008/03/03/is-austan-goolsbee-overrated/#comment-7212 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:12:49 +0000 http://www.truthonthemarket.com/2008/03/03/is-austan-goolsbee-overrated/#comment-7212 * had

]]> http://truthonthemarket.com/2008/03/03/is-austan-goolsbee-overrated/#comment-7211 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:58:36 +0000 http://www.truthonthemarket.com/2008/03/03/is-austan-goolsbee-overrated/#comment-7211 Nearly every economic adviser has been to the right of the president they served on issues of trade, taxes, and spending, including Reagan (Weidenbaum, Feldstein, Sprinkel); Bush 39 (Boskin); Clinton (Tyson, Stiglitz, Yellen, Baily); and Bush 41 (Hubbard, Mankiw, Rosen, Bernanke). Ironically, the one President who comes to mind as being notably more conservative than many of his economic advisers was FDR, but he has some pretty pink advisers.

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