Episode 68: Arnold Kling, Economist, Author and Entrepreneur

Arnold Kling is an American economist, author, and one of the internet's earliest and most influential economics bloggers. After earning a PhD in economics from MIT, he spent years working as an economist at the Federal Reserve and as a senior economist at Freddie Mac from 1986 to 1994. He then pivoted to the tech world, founding and later selling the company Homefair.com for $85 million. Since 2000, Kling has been a prolific writer and blogger, co-founding EconLog with Bryan Caplan and David R. Henderson and later launching his own site, askblog. He's an Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute and affiliated with the Mercatus Centre at George Mason University. He's also the author of several books exploring economics and political thought, including Specialisation and Trade, Unchecked and Unbalanced, and his best-known work, The Three Languages of Politics, which offers a framework for understanding how liberals, conservatives, and libertarians talk past each other.