I'm still away on the road (which is why comments and questions in the last week have gone unanswered).  However, while I'm away, here's a point made by Joseph Stiglitz at Project-Syndicate.org.  John Maynard Keynes famously said that today's policy-makers are the slaves of defunct economists.  Joseph says, and I agree, that today's policy makers … Continue reading A Contagion of Bad Ideas. Not Only Slaves to Defunct Economists, but Slaves to Bad Ideas.