macroeconomist

Here the point is that macroeconomist like to pretend that you can go from aggregates to aggregates (from aggregate endowements to aggregate demand for example or to money demand for another).

Matthew Yglesias » Mortgage Rates and Stimulus 2010

Laurence Ball is a macroeconomist at Johns Hopkins, a New Keynesian and a frequent co-author of Greg Mankiw.

Matthew Yglesias » Janet Yellen Tapped for Fed Vice Chair 2010

I think there is a fourth reason, as described here and here by an actual working macroeconomist.

Matthew Yglesias » Cutting the Stimulus 2009

I am sortof a macroeconomist (at least I admit it).

Matthew Yglesias » Mortgage Rates and Stimulus 2010

The question then arises as to why he is a working macroeconomist.

Matthew Yglesias » Cutting the Stimulus 2009

I think there is a fourth reason, as described here and here by an actual working macroeconomist. john ricker Says:

Matthew Yglesias » Cutting the Stimulus 2009

I was the chief macroeconomist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture under President Ronald Reagan.

It's a SNAP to Figure Why Food-Aid Costs Increased 2011

IHS Global Insight is predicting growth of around 7.5 to 8% with Beijing-based macroeconomist Alistair Thornton warning: "As China strides into the Year of the Dragon, its economy is in the midst of an aggressive slowdown."

China's economic growth slows further 2012

So a leftwing macroeconomist accusing a rightwing macroeconomist of lying, or vice-versa, is just sound and fury signifying nothing.

Matthew Yglesias » Accounting Identities and Straussian Economics 2009

Well, as a Republican and a macroeconomist I have my own views that might not jibe with most Democrats '.

The Minimum Wage, Con't, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009