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Arnold Kling's personal web page
Arnold Kling
December, 2020. I have had my own web site for about 20 years, and I have done a lot of writing. Organizing it is a chore.
As of November 2021, my current essays and blog posts are on substack.
I can be reached at arnoldsk@us.net
Biographical
I am an economist by training, on my nth career, which involves writing. Career n-1 included teaching as well as writing and blogging. Career n-2 was as an Internet entrepreneur. Career n-3 was as a middle manager with Freddie Mac. Career n-4 was as an economist with the Fed.
Here is a more extended biography.
Books
- The Three Languages of Politics 2019 (revised and expanded from a 2013 self-published e-book)
- Specialization and Trade 2016
- Memoirs of a Would-be Macroeconomist never published
- Unchecked and Unbalanced: How the Discrepancy between Knowledge and Power Caused the Financial Crisis and Threatens Democracy2009
- From Poverty to Prosperity: Intangible Assets, Hidden Liabilities and The Lasting Triumph over Scarcity co-authored with Nick Schulz, 2009. Reissued in paperback as Invisible Wealth.
- Crisis of Abundance: Rethinking How We Pay for Health Care 2006
- Learning Economics 2004
- Under the Radar: Starting Your Net Business Without Venture Capital 2001
Teaching
- AP economics (for high school students)
- AP Statistics
- economics for the citizen taught at George Mason for a few years
- vHandouts I created "virtual handouts" (skill drills and hints) for my AP stat and AP econ classes
- The American Housing Finance System for MRuniversity
Blogging
- In My Tribe (substack)
- askblog. November 2012 - November 2021
- EconLogJanuary 2003 - June 2012
- Great Questions of Economics 2001 - 2002
- Internet Bubble Monitor1999 - 2001
Book Reviews
Academic Papers (does not include papers published before 2000) and other long essays
- The Congressional Budget Office and the Demand for Pseudoscience Yale Law and Policy Review 2017.
- The Keynesian Aggregation Problem in Steven Kates, ed., What's Wrong with Keynesian Economic Theory? 2016
- The 1970s: The Decade the Phillips Curve Died in Randall E. Parker and Robert M. Whaples, ed. Routledge Handbook of Major Events in Economic History.2013
- Macroeconometrics: The Science of Hubris Critical Review, issues 1-2, 2011
- PSST: Patterns of Sustainable Specialization and Trade, Capitalism and Society Vol. 6, No. 2, 2011.
- Patterns of Sustainable Specialization and Trade: A Smith-Ricardo Theory of Macroeconomics
- The Financial Crisis of 2008: Moral Failure or Cognitive Failure? Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, March 2010
- The Chess Game of Financial Regulation 2009
- Not What They Had in Mind: A History of Policies that Caused the Financial Crisis of 2008"
- The New Commanding Heights (co-authored with Nick Schulz) in National Affairs 2011
- Cultural Intelligence in National Affairs 2016
- How Effective is Economic Theory? in National Affairs 2017
- Economics After the Virus in National Affairs 2020
Essays
At some point, I will put together a page that lists all of these. It will be really long. Meanwhile, here are some sources.
- aimstindex
- archive of TCS Daily
- American Enterprise Institute
- Medium (includes stories written by others that mention me. I need to create my own index.)