The Quote of the 21st Century:
And you’ve got Greg Mankiw — well, I don’t know what Greg actually believes, he just seems to be approvingly linking to anyone opposed to stimulus, regardless of the quality of their argument.
Either that, or it's a description of everything that is wrong with the field of Economics today.
Not that it can't be both.
UPDATE: As usual,
Mark Thoma was there first, and includes Mankiw's disingenous response and Thoma's spot-on analysis of the accompanying loss of reputational capital that response requires:
Declaring that you might post things that support your agenda without any comment at all, even when you have questions about how the conclusion was derived, is a license to mislead.
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