Category: Economic Thinking

  • “Anyone, Anyone?” Who’s Thinking about Economics?

    “Anyone, Anyone?” Who’s Thinking about Economics?

    If you follow pop culture even a little bit, you recognize the reference in our title to Ben Stein’s portrayal of the boring economics teacher in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Like the high school class staring vacantly as Stein’s character explains the Smoot-Hawley Tariff and the Laffer Curve*, many of…