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The Federal Department of Education Now Has a Chief Economist. Maybe What It Really Needs Is a Chaplain.

September 1, 2022

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“Biden’s Student Loan Plan Sets Off Fierce Debate Among Economists,” is the headline over a news article on the front of the business section of the New York Times. “Department of Education Appoints Its First Chief Economist,” was a headline earlier this year. Education seems lately to be a good example of the phenomenon documented by Binyamin Appelbaum in his 2019 book The Economists’ Hour—the rise of economics as a discipline influencing public policy and of economists as policy makers.

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