Arnold Kling
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Arnold Kling is a founder and co-editor of EconLog, an economics blog, along with Bryan Caplan
and David Henderson.
Kling graduated from Swarthmore College
in 1975 and received a Ph.D. in economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
. He worked as an economist in the Federal Reserve System
from 1980 to 1986. He served as a senior economist at Freddie Mac from 1986 to 1994. He started, developed and sold Homefair.com from 1994 to 1999. Kling is an adjunct scholar with the Cato Institute
. He teaches statistics and economics at the Berman Hebrew Academy in Rockville, Maryland. In 2004 and 2005, he taught "Economics for the Citizen" at George Mason University
in Fairfax, Virginia.
Kling has commented on Hydraulic Macroeconomics
and is the author of Crisis of Abundance: Rethinking How We Pay for Health Care, which was published in 2006 and two other books published in 2009, Unchecked and Unbalanced: How the Discrepancy Between Knowledge and Power Caused the Financial Crisis and Threatens Democracy and From Poverty to Prosperity: Intangible Assets, Hidden Liabilities and The Lasting Triumph over Scarcity
Bryan Caplan
Bryan Caplan is an American economist, a Professor of Economics at George Mason University, Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center, adjunct scholar of the Cato Institute, and blogger for Econlog. He is best known for his work in public choice theory and for his libertarian ideology.-Personal...
and David Henderson.
Kling graduated from Swarthmore College
Swarthmore College
Swarthmore College is a private, independent, liberal arts college in the United States with an enrollment of about 1,500 students. The college is located in the borough of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, 11 miles southwest of Philadelphia....
in 1975 and received a Ph.D. in economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
. He worked as an economist in the Federal Reserve System
Federal Reserve System
The Federal Reserve System is the central banking system of the United States. It was created on December 23, 1913 with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act, largely in response to a series of financial panics, particularly a severe panic in 1907...
from 1980 to 1986. He served as a senior economist at Freddie Mac from 1986 to 1994. He started, developed and sold Homefair.com from 1994 to 1999. Kling is an adjunct scholar with the Cato Institute
Cato Institute
The Cato Institute is a libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. It was founded in 1977 by Edward H. Crane, who remains president and CEO, and Charles Koch, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the conglomerate Koch Industries, Inc., the largest privately held...
. He teaches statistics and economics at the Berman Hebrew Academy in Rockville, Maryland. In 2004 and 2005, he taught "Economics for the Citizen" at George Mason University
George Mason University
George Mason University is a public university based in unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, south of and adjacent to the city of Fairfax. Additional campuses are located nearby in Arlington County, Prince William County, and Loudoun County...
in Fairfax, Virginia.
Kling has commented on Hydraulic Macroeconomics
Hydraulic macroeconomics
Hydraulics is the science and engineering of the mechanical properties of liquids. Macroeconomics is the study of the performance and structure of an entire economy....
and is the author of Crisis of Abundance: Rethinking How We Pay for Health Care, which was published in 2006 and two other books published in 2009, Unchecked and Unbalanced: How the Discrepancy Between Knowledge and Power Caused the Financial Crisis and Threatens Democracy and From Poverty to Prosperity: Intangible Assets, Hidden Liabilities and The Lasting Triumph over Scarcity
External links
- EconLog
- Econ Library Profile
- ArnoldKling.com
- Videos (with audio available) of conversations involving Kling on Bloggingheads.tvBloggingheads.tvBloggingheads.tv is a political, world events, philosophy, and science video blog discussion site in which the participants take part in an active back and forth conversation via webcam which is then broadcast online to viewers...