Find it here. The contents are described as follows:
Occupational Misfeasance of Labor Textbooks: Frank
Stephenson and Erin Wendt report that textbooks neglect occupational
licensing.
Do Economists
Believe American Democracy Is Working? A new survey by William
Davis and Robert Figgins indicates that Democratic, Republican, and
Libertarian economists are all of but little faith.
Adam Smith’s Invisible
Hand–Is That All There Is? Gavin Kennedy argues that it was
just a casual metaphor; Dan Klein dissents.
Guns and Crime, Round 2: Carlisle Moody and Thomas
Marvell rejoin, and Ian Ayres and John Donohue reply.
Intellectual Hazard:
97 quotations about our wanton ways.
Guns and Crime, Round 2:
In summary: They said we said what we didn’t really say about complicated statistics we did or didn’t use to find tenuous correlations between un-related factors with little mechanistic explanation related to our agenda of declaring broad societal effects to a minor input.
Yeah maybe if labor economist were licensed it would end this Misfeasance.
Just kidding.
The obvious question – does Modern Principles: Microeconomics cover occupational licensing? If not, why?
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