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...and efficient. Krugman's article heaps scorn on so-called "freshwater economists"--as typified by the University of Chicago economics faculty, whose ideas have dominated government policymaking since the early 1980s. In contrast,...

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...real economy. He also described differences between the "salt water" economists at universities along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and the "fresh water" economists of the Middle West, particularly the University of Chicago. Today's crisis...

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...among academic economists. The University of Chicago's John Cochrane, for example, has been locked in a public duel with last year's Nobel prize-winner Paul Krugman about the issue over the last two months. The Senate economics committee...

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...Krugman (officially known as "the Nobel prize-winning Paul Krugman") of Princeton and the New York Times, and John Cochrane of the University of Chicago. Each is a representative agent of two schools. The first, a more Keynesian approach with...

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...economists, such as Robert Shiller of Yale. He also identifies Andrei Shleifer of Harvard and Robert Vishney of the University of Chicago, who warned of bubble hazards well in advance of peaks. Unfortunately, their warnings received an...

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...in a New York Times magazine article, leading John Cochrane to respond on his website. Cochrane's father was a historian at the University of Chicago. Cochrane is married to Elizabeth Fama, the daugher of Eugene Fama and a children book...

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...economy. On the other side is a shorter but eminent list of economists who are skeptical about the benefits of stimulus, including Nobel winner Gary Becker of the University of Chicago and top macroeconomist Robert Barro of Harvard. "What's...

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...what supply side economist Arthur Laffer says. A recent study by University of Chicago professor Casey Mulligan concluded inflation rates and government spending are only weakly correlated. Moreover, without the current deficit, as Nobel...

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...tee-vee. Yelling at my newspaper just seems odd. Krugman is deranged. That smackdown by that University of Chicago prof that someone linked to yesterday was epic. When he says "nuts to that" does he mean, "Nuts, I won't surrender...

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