Arnold Kling (born 1954) is an American economist, scholar, and blogger known for his writings on EconLog, an economics blog, along with

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and

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. Kling also has his own blog, askblog, which carries the motto: "taking the most charitable views of those who disagree." The "ask" in askblog stands for "Arnold S. Kling." He is an Adjunct Scholar for the

Cato Institute The Cato Institute is an American libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. It was founded in 1977 by Ed Crane, Murray Rothbard, and Charles Koch, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Koch Industries.Koch Indust ...

and is affiliated with the

Mercatus Center The Mercatus Center is an American Libertarianism in the United States, libertarian, free-market-oriented non-profit think tank. Located at George Mason University and directed by the American economist Tyler Cowen, the Mercatus Center works with ...

. Kling graduated from

Swarthmore College Swarthmore College ( , ) is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1864, with its first classes held in 1869, Swarthmore is one of the earliest coeduca ...

in 1975 and received a Ph.D. in economics from

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

. He worked as an economist in the

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from 1980 to 1986. He served as a senior economist at

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. In 2004 and 2005, he taught "Economics for the Citizen" at

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. Kling has commented on hydraulic macroeconomics and he is also the author of a number of books on economics and politics. He identifies as a

libertarian Libertarianism (from french: libertaire, "libertarian"; from la, libertas, "freedom") is a political philosophy that upholds liberty as a core value. Libertarians seek to maximize autonomy and political freedom, and minimize the state's e ...

Publications

* ''Under the Radar: Starting Your Net Business Without Venture Capital'' (2002). * ''Learning Economics'' (2004). * ''Crisis of Abundance: Rethinking How We Pay for Health Care'' (2006). * ''Unchecked and Unbalanced: How the Discrepancy Between Knowledge and Power Caused the Financial Crisis and Threatens Democracy'' (2009). * ''From Poverty to Prosperity: Intangible Assets, Hidden Liabilities and The Lasting Triumph over Scarcity'' (2009). * ''Not What They Had in Mind: A History of Policies That Produced the Financial Crisis of 2008'' (2015). * ''Specialization and Trade: A Reintroduction to Economics'' (2016). * ''The Three Languages of Politics: Talking Across the Political Divides'' (2017).

References

External links

*
Kling's Substack blog

Kling's bio
at the

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