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Arnold Kling | |
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 Kling in 2017 | |
| Born | 1954 (age 70–71) |
| Alma mater | Swarthmore College (BS) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Economics |
| Institutions | Federal Reserve System Freddie Mac Cato Institute |
| Website | arnoldkling |
Arnold Kling (born 1954) is an American economist, scholar, and blogger known for his writings on EconLog, an economics blog, along withBryan Caplan andDavid R. Henderson.[1] Kling also has his own blog, askblog, which carries the motto: "taking the most charitable views of those who disagree." The "ask" in askblog stands for "Arnold S. Kling." He is an Adjunct Scholar for theCato Institute and is affiliated with theMercatus Center.
Kling graduated fromSwarthmore College in 1975 and received a Ph.D. in economics fromMassachusetts Institute of Technology. He worked as an economist in theFederal Reserve System from 1980 to 1986. He served as a senior economist atFederal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) from 1986 to 1994. He started, developed, and sold homefair.com between 1994 and 1999. He teaches statistics and economics at the Berman Hebrew Academy inRockville, Maryland. In 2004 and 2005, he taught "Economics for the Citizen" atGeorge Mason University inFairfax, Virginia.
Kling has commented onhydraulic macroeconomics and he is also the author of a number of books on economics and politics. He identifies as alibertarian.[2]
