The Corner

Anti-Keynesian Nobels

In today’s WSJ, economist David Henderson explains how the scholarship of this year’s Nobel laureates in economics, Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims, undermines Keynesian arguments.  Moreover, Sargent’s work has shown how extended unemployment insurance encourages longer term unemployment and leads to the loss of human capital.

Jonathan H. Adler is the Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. His books include Business and the Roberts Court and Marijuana Federalism: Uncle Sam and Mary Jane.
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