Last week, Russ Roberts (of ever excellent Econtalk) wrote a blog post about economics and engineering. I was surprised by how much I disagreed, though not in the way you might expect.  His point: looking at the economy isn’t anything like an engineering problem. The economy is complex and emergent while...

At present course these would decimate small businesses and further exacerbate the income and wealth inequality.

I was an economics major in college, and I've been grateful ever since for a few key concepts those courses drilled into me: things like opp