Shovel-Ready Twins December 22, 2008
Posted by tomflesher in Academia.Tags: Bryan Caplan, EconLib, Keynesian, macroeconomics, make-work bias, Obama, public goods, public works, shovel-ready, stimulus
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My Macroeconomic Theory final had an extra credit question asking us to apply one of the models from the class to the Obama stimulus proposal. I’m something of an econeophyte, but I do remember this coming up in, inter alia, Alan Harvey’s Demand Side Economics podcast (which I listened to mainly to balance EconTalk, which I listen to mainly because Russ Roberts is brilliant).
In addition, I am a twin. Why this is relevant will become clear behind the cut.