Arnold Kling    The Economists We Have  Antitrust Kills...
Thoughts on Education Reform...  David Colander writes,
Pointer from Tyler Cowen. To say that I agree would be an
understatement.  The article goes on to draw an analogy between
economics and engineering, which I might quarrel with. The way I
think of engineering, at some point the engineer knows whether
the system or product works, in the sense of doing what is
supposed to do. In economics, I doubt that we obtain comparably
reliable knowledge about whether a policy or economic model
works.  Comments and Sharing  COMMENTS (15 to date) Patrick R.
Sullivan writes:  Your argument is made even stronger by the
previous post, 'Antitrust Kills'. There's clearly a case of
hubris by economists--the underlying theory of the case was
'path dependence', promoted initially by a couple of prominent
Stanford economists (and also Paul Krugman), which turned out to
be bogus.  Greg writes:  I need to tell you why you are wrong.
(note that i am on a graduate program s