Por qPor qué no hay que ignorar a los economistas
No siempre tienen razón, pero casi siempre tienen algo importante que añadir
I’m really liking most of what I see from Kamala Harris’ campaign so far, but I disagreed with her about “anti-price-gouging” policy. Fortunately, as Jerusalem Demsas reports, Harris has clarified that she doesn’t support price controls or endorse Elizabeth Warren’s bill from 2022:
When I asked the Harris campaign for clarity, a senior campaign official told me that Harris was not supporting price controls, nor would her proposal to go after price-gougers apply beyond food and grocery stores. After some prodding, the official confirmed that this meant Harris had not endorsed the Warren-Casey bill…The official also [said] that adding in too much detail could be deceptive given that the real policy-making process requires time, effort, and negotiation.
My objections were based on the assumption that Harris was endorsing Warren’s ideas about price controls; instead, it seems like she’s simply throwing out some populist rhetoric. Which means I’m no longer worried about this issue. Unlike the GOP, the Democrats have a candidate who can be relied upon to listen to the relevant experts and avoid taking extreme and dangerous policy steps.
In this case, the experts were economists, most of whom are against “anti-price-gouging” efforts and price control type policies in general. Here are a couple of representative polls from the Clark Center’s Economics Expert Panel, which is a survey of a few dozen top economists:
Why you should not ignore economists - by Noah Smith (noahpinion.blog)
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