Episode 68: Arnold Kling, Economist, Author and Entrepreneur

<p>Arnold Kling is an American economist, author, and one of the internet&#39;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 <a href="http://homefair.com/" target="_blank">Homefair.com</a> for $85 million. </p><p>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&#39;s an Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute and affiliated with the Mercatus Centre at George Mason University. He&#39;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.</p>