Re: Re: Re: David Neumark

[Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 07:45 AM 8/31/00 -0700, michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> So it happens once every 150 years.  I am disregarding the overly common
> experience of lefists who become conservative, mostly in line with their
> self-interest.

Daniel Fusfeld, Leonard Rapping, Paul Zarembka, and John Gurley seem to be
cases of economists who went left-wing, likely because of the anti-war
movement's influence (though it's possible they simply "came out of the
closet" as leftists once they saw it as permissible).[*] What's rare is
when an economist changes his or her opinions due to empirical research,
since usually econometric methods are biased by one's priors.

[*] I don't know these guys' stories, but would be interested in hearing them.

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine