Economists Have Much To Be

To Prove That Wall Street Is An Early Omen Of Movements Still To Come In Gnp, Commentators Quote Economic Studies Alleging That Market Downturns Predicted Four Out Of The Last Five Recessions. That Is An Understatement. Wall Street Indexes Predicted Nine Out Of The Last Five Recessions! And Its Mistakes Were Beauties.

In This Age Of Specialization, I Sometimes Think Of Myself As The Last 'generalist' In Economics, With Interests That Range From Mathematical Economics Down To Current Financial Journalism. My Real Interests Are Research And Teaching.

Let Those Who Will Write The Nation's Laws, If I Can Write Its Textbooks.

Kelsoism Is Not Accepted By Modern Scientific Economics As A Valid And Fruitful Analysis Of The Distribution Of Income But Rather It Is Regarded As An Amateurish And Cranky Fad.

First, Those Who Disagree With Market Efficiency Simply Assert That It Stands To Common Sense That Greater Effort To Get Facts And Greater Acumen In Analyzing Those Facts Will Pay Off In Better Performance Somehow Measured. (by This Logic, Cure For Cancer Must Have Been Found By 1955).