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 David R. Henderson. 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

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and is affiliated with the

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. Kling graduated from

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

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a Private university, private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of moder ...

. 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

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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.

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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