http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2008/06/someone-on-the.html
He also includes the comments of Samuelson supporters like Tyler Cowan. I can understand Samuelson being wrong, he's just a flack in the pay of big business, but Cowan is a professor of economics.
It's true his salary is paid (indirectly) from the largess of super wealthy libertarian Charles Koch, but one would think he has some desire to preserve his professional standing. Perhaps his stint at the NY Times has made him think that he can say anything these days and not hurt is marketability.
As for the link to libertarian money, here's my little essay, if you haven't seen it before:
http://robertdfeinman.com/society/gmu.html Policies not Politics ---- Daily Landscape
And libertarian academics are people who are funded to prove that coyote really can cross the canyon so long as he never looks down. It's creation science. keep to the Fen Causeway
