http://www.metafilter.com/tags/JonathanChait Posts tagged with 'JonathanChait' at MetaFilter. Wed, 05 Sep 2007 21:31:01 -0800 Wed, 05 Sep 2007 21:31:01 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/64453/Laffer%2DCurve%2DCultists "Here is what makes the rise of supply-side ideology even more baffling. One might expect that a radical ideology that successfully passed itself off as a sophisticated new doctrine would at least have the benefit of smooth, reassuring, intellectual front men, men whose very bearing could attest to the new doctrine's eminent good sense and mainstream bona fides. Yet, if you look at its two most eminent authors, good sense is not the impression you get. Let me put this delicately. No, on second thought, let me put it straightforwardly: They are deranged." <a href="http://www.tnr.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20070910&s=chait091007">Feast of the Wingnuts</a> - How economic crackpots devoured American politics, by Jonathan Chait. Counterlink: Arthur B. Laffer <a href="http://www.heritage.org/Research/Taxes/bg1765.cfm">explains his curve</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.64453 Wed, 05 Sep 2007 21:31:01 -0800 economics JonathanChait LafferCurve politics Kattullus