Quote For The Day II

“Overall this needed to be a lot better than it was. The document has almost no vision, only a marginal command of the scholarly literature, and it is a good example of how the conservative movement is still allowing the poverty issue to defeat it and tie it up in knots,” – Tyler Cowen, on Paul Ryan’s attempted use of mainstream social science in his new budget proposal.

Chait piles on merrily and mercilessly, as is tradition.