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JW Mason @JWMason1
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Econ 101: Incentives don't matter.

nytimes.com/2018/11/15/opi…
It's a valid point and an important one. Good on him for writing it.

The problems are 1) he wrote "conservatives" when he should (also) have written "economists); 2) he himself produces academic work and, more consequentially, textbooks, where business decisions do respond >
> strongly to interest rates and other incentives; 3) if US monetary policy works largely through exchange rate changes, how is that any different than what gets dubbed "manipulation" when China does it?
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