{"id":96123,"date":"2016-05-15T11:03:09","date_gmt":"2016-05-15T19:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=96123"},"modified":"2016-05-15T11:04:07","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T19:04:07","slug":"my-ucla-economics-prof-profiled-in-the-wsj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=96123","title":{"rendered":"My UCLA Economics Prof Interviewed By The WSJ"},"content":{"rendered":"

LINK<\/a>: Mr. Roberts is decidedly not in the materialist camp. He has described himself as a believer, a religious Jew, and he has a penchant for literature. One of his books is an \u201ceconomic romance\u201d about a young high-school teacher who woos a colleague over talk of the invisible hand. In another of his novels, a heavenly magistrate sends a 19th-century economist back to America to discredit protectionism…<\/p>\n

Several years ago, Mr. Roberts was pressed by a reporter to put a number on how many jobs the North American Free Trade Agreement had created. When Mr. Roberts replied that he had no idea, the reporter accused him of ducking the question. \u201cHe said\u2014he literally said this\u2014\u2018But you\u2019re a professional economist,\u2019 \u201d Mr. Roberts recounts. \u201cHe meant, \u2018Isn\u2019t that what you do? Isn\u2019t that your job?\u2019 And of course my answer is no. We\u2019re not good at that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LINK: Mr. Roberts is decidedly not in the materialist camp. He has described himself as a believer, a religious Jew, and he has a penchant for literature. One of his books is an \u201ceconomic romance\u201d about a young high-school teacher … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,2001],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-russell-roberts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t