Who’s Your Economic Daddy?
For most people, debating economic doctrines is a pastime best left to the Ph.D. economists working in government, think tanks and universities. But as Rob Atkinson writes in Huffington Post, economic doctrines are at the heart of the economic policies being debated right now in the presidential campaign, in the halls of Congress, and in the current administration. Virtually all policy makers involved in economic policy, including our two major presidential candidates, subscribe to a particular economic doctrine, even if they may not be aware of which “camp” they are in.