The Economists’ Consensus

A reminder of some basic propositions agreed on by the overwhelming majority of economists.
Published on February 18, 2011

When dealing with public policy questions economics is almost certainly the most informative discipline, and so it’s worth remembering the list of propositions from Gregory Mankiw’s popular text Principles of Economics on which the overwhelming majority of professional economists agree.

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