Comments on: We Need a New Branch of Economics: Stimulus Economics

By: mindyk

mindyk — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:11:45 +0000

a PERFECT example is my comment on the “informationalism” proposal. Stimulus Economics would also study the effect of domestic content disclosure on spending patterns

By: Charles Beall

Charles Beall — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:51:53 +0000

At last, I’ve found someone who actually knows how to use the word “comprise.”

By: policywonk

policywonk — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:45:30 +0000

It’s like with birds, where they tag them to see how they migrate. Stimulus economics would partly be about seeing how the money flows when it is spent in various ways.

By: queerguyforthequeerguy

queerguyforthequeerguy — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 18:37:13 +0000

fox news guy, liberals are in control now–get used to it. But you do have a point. No one knows if this is going to work. It’s a $800-billon bet. we don’t know how much will stay in the country, how much will be wasted. I personally think a lot of it will be but it’s almost impossible for the government to do anyhting without some of it being wasted.

By: foxnewsfan

foxnewsfan — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 16:16:12 +0000

I came here from Kruse about the pennies — I thought this would be a conservative site. I don’t like liberals and I don’t think I would like you. I think if people knew how much of the stimulus was going to be wasted they would oppose it but no one has ever studied this stuff. no one had even heard the term until last year. I fear Harvard is going to end up doing this first which would be a travesty but at least would encourage others to counter-study it.

By: stimulusopponent

stimulusopponent — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:33:22 +0000

nothing personal but this site should NOT come up first or second on google when you plug in “stimulus economics.” That by itself shows this field is understudied. Like in the liberals stimulkus plan no one knows HOW LONG its going to take to get the stimulus into the economy. who is studying that?

By: thoreaufan

thoreaufan — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 10:42:08 +0000

here’s a good example — you have this stimulus idea about more upscale immigration. Would that be a net positive for stimulation or taek away jobs? Who the hell knows but it should be someone’s job to find out.

By: concordjoe

concordjoe — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:42:43 +0000

I am shocked that the most important questions of our day have no academics studying them. Not that academics are always right (far from it) but it seems like if there had been such an animal before 2008 we would have avoided the obviosu fiasco of the 2008 stimulus checks.

Where is Harvard on this one? MIT?

By: armchaireconomist

armchaireconomist — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 02:53:41 +0000

totally agree. A Nobel prize to the first person who figures out how to overcome the “Paradox of thrift.”