Conor Clarke at Atlantic Business:
I spoke with Robert Barro of Harvard yesterday about the stimulus bill, fiscal policy, and related issues in macroeconomics.
I wanted to speak with Professor Barro after reading his piece in the Wall Street Journal about the multiplier on government spending. The piece, which argued that the multiplier has historically been much lower than the Obama administration hopes, produced a tremendous amount of response — from Paul Krugman, Brad DeLong, Greg Mankiw, Matt Yglesias, and Tyler Cowen (some of them several times). And that response was notable, in part, because it turned into a reflection on the “standards” of the stimulus debate itself. I was interested to hear what Barro thought about his critics this debate.
…Do you read Paul Krugman’s blog?
Just when he writes nasty individual comments that people forward.Oh, well he wrote a series of posts saying he thought the…
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