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Binyamin Appelbaum on "The Economists’ Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society"

Binyamin Appelbaum is the lead writer on business and economics for the editorial board of The New York Times, and he was previously a Washington correspondent for The Times covering the Federal Reserve and other aspects of economic policy. Binyamin is also a returning guest to the show, and joins today to talk about his new book, *The Economists’ Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society*. David and Binyamin also discuss Milton Friedman’s influence on economic thought during the postwar era, the history of the emergence of supply side economics, and the consequences that have arisen from committing too strongly to free market principles.

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David Beckworth: Our guest today is Binyamin Appelbaum. Bin is the lead writer on business and economics for the editorial board of The New York Times, and previously a Washington correspondent for The Times, covering the Federal Reserve and other aspects of economic policy. Bin is also a returning guest to t

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Ep. 32 — An economics reporter is jolted by the 2016 Presidential race and rethinks all his assumptions about the American economy and electorate / Binyamin Appelbaum, Author, The Economist’s Hour.

Binyamin Appelbaum had been reporting and writing about economics for more than a decade when Donald Trump won the 2016 Presidential race.

The shocking outcome led Appelbaum to realize that he must go back to the drawing board, to Macroeconomics 101, in order to understand what had just happened.

What resulted is his terrific book, “The Economists’ Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society.”

The Economists’ Hour refers to the 40-year period from 1969 to 2008 when a cadré of economists rose from obscurity to household names, shaping government policy and shifting the government’s role from actively shaping the economy to allowing the market to largely do so.

Appelbaum concludes that those economists were in essence, “False Prophets.”

“They sold their ideas by representing that if we embrace this approach to public policy, the economy would grow more quickly, all boats would be lifted up

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Binyamin Appelbaum

American newspaperwoman and author

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