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Many people commenting on this interesting interview with @delong. I've been more or less there for a long time; there will be no useful compromise with conservatives for the foreseeable future, and we need to be realistic about that 1/ vox.com/policy-and-pol…
What I'm a bit less clear about is what exactly that implies for professional economists who are also progressives. In my case I think it means that you think of meaningful policy debate as being between the mildly center-left and the people to the left of that 2/
Climate policy is the most obvious case, and the most important one. Econ 101 says rely on carbon pricing; aside from that probably not the whole story, you want to compromise with people who want to throw a bunch of other stuff in, even if you think some of it is a bit flaky 3/
Because the Green New Deal is something that might actually happen, while getting conservative to agree to anything helpful won't happen until Antarctica unfreezes over 4/
This doesn't mean pretending that really bad analysis (cough MMT) makes sense, but it does mean not being an econopurist. Neither left nor right is going to make economists into philosopher-kings, but the current U.S. left is actually willing to have rational conversations 5/
