Walter, (re: my mis-estimate of statist economists), I have to admit I contemplated 99.44%, but I didn’t want to date myself anymore than I already have as I sit here listening to a 1959 Sinatra singing with Red Norvo and remember seeing Art Blakey and Horace Silver at Birdland about the same time. I think we have an aggregation problem because clearly 1 living Austrian economist is worth a large multiple of statist economists (a redundant expression if I ever penned one), and Walter Block is surely an outlier even among that august group that includes such others as Bill Anderson and Bob Murphy. This raises my estimate of how many (worthless) statist economists there are. If we bring in deceased economists like Menger, von Mises, Hayek, and Rothbard, well, how much is a Krugman actually worth?

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