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Politics : The Trump Presidency

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To: neolib who wrote (66971)	4/15/2018 6:59:07 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 358083

All sorts of people, including him, are very intelligent and make incisive statements without ever publishing work significant enough to be considered academic titans in their field. Its not as if he hasn't published or hasn't had success in the academic world. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard, was a full professor at UCLA and then a senior fellow at Stanford. He has also won the Sidney Hook Award. Sure its no Nobel Prize or John Bates Clark Medal, but it has some lesser level of prestige and the Phi Beta Kappa society doesn't hand them out for being a libertarian gadfly. Sure in recent decades he has focused more on books and articles than papers and he didn't have the type of stature in the economics profession that one of his mentors Milton Friedman had, but he's hardly an academic lightweight. In any case this all seems a bit ad-homem. If he was Joe down the block who never went to college, that wouldn't make his arguments any weaker. Also I doubt you would bother mentioning academic credentials if someone with a much lower level of them agreed with you.

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