Samuel Staley at Reason.org

My critiques of the stimulus program and the naive way in which econometrics and economic models have been used to push a progressive political agenda have appeared on Reason's Out of Control (see my most recent here) as well as a series of articles in the National Review (see here and here for samples).

Frankly, I have found the blatant way in which economists in the current White House have used statistics to push their political agenda, pushing econometric methods beyond their legitimate uses, has significantly diminished the status of the economics profession.