Tuesday, October 26, 2010

What do econ bloggers think about government and the economy

Every quarter the Kaufman foundation polls a group of "leading economics bloggers" (which means, not Angus!) on a bunch of questions.

The one I found most interesting was "Is the federal government too involved in the U.S. economy?"

63% said yes! This is on page 5 of the report linked above.

Page 11 of the report reveals that only 9% of the respondents are registered Republicans.

***update*** the above sentence should say only 9% identified themselves as registered Republicans!


The whole report is (still) well worth reading.

2 comments:

John Thacker said...

Page 11 of the report reveals that only 9% of the respondents are registered Republicans.

Page 11 of the report reveals that 9% described themselves as registered Republicans, 21% as registered Democrats, 31% as Independent/Others, and 39% declined to describe themselves politically.

It's likely that somewhat more than 9% are registered Republicans.

Angus said...

Well spotted, sorry for the error.