Where are all those free-market economists who caused the financial crisis? [new The Good Life column]
The opening of my latest column at EveryJoe: “A common meme about the financial crisis blames it on capitalism run amok and holds the rise of free-market fundamentalism among economists responsible for unleashing the greed. Academic economists, the argument runs, are largely free-marketers, and they convinced politicians to deregulate important swathes of the American economy, […]