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

and is affiliated with the

Mercatus Center The Mercatus Center is an American 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 policy experts, lobbyists, and gove ...

. Kling graduated from Swarthmore College in 1975 and received a Ph.D. in economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He worked as an economist in the

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from 1980 to 1986. He served as a senior economist at Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) from 1986 to 1994. He started, developed, and sold homefair.com between 1994 and 1999. He teaches statistics and economics at the Berman Hebrew Academy in Rockville, Maryland. In 2004 and 2005, he taught "Economics for the Citizen" at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Kling has commented on

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and he is also the author of a number of books on economics and politics. He identifies as a libertarian.

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

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Kling's Substack blog

Kling's bio
at the

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