May 18, 2011

Economic Understanding: “There’s a Lot of Confirmation Bias out There”

Michael Giberson Do liberals or conservatives of libertarians tend to have a better understanding of economics? It is a question that Daniel Klein and Zeljka Buturovic investigated in a pair of papers appearing in Econ Journal Watch (one and two). The first paper appeared to show that a college education didn’t lead to much improvement in economic …

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