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Arnold Kling
Adjunct Scholar
Arnold Kling is an independent scholar who writes about a wide variety of economic issues. He was an economist on the staff of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 1980-1986, and served as a senior economist at Freddie Mac from 1986-1994. In 1994, he started Homefair.com, one of the first commercial sites on the World Wide Web. (Homefair was sold in 1999 to Homestore.com.) Kling is the author of several books, most recently From Poverty to Prosperity: Intangible Assets, Hidden Liabilities and The Lasting Triumph over Scarcity and Crisis of Abundance: Rethinking How We Pay for Health Care, published by the Cato Institute. He also co-edits EconLog, a weblog devoted to economic issues. Kling received his Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980.
Media Contact: 202-789-5200
To Book a Speaking Engagement: 202-789-5226
Books and Book Chapters
From Poverty to Prosperity: Intangible Assets, Hidden Liabilities and The Lasting Triumph over Scarcity, by Arnold Kling and Nick Schulz (2009)
Crisis of Abundance: Rethinking How We Pay for Health Care, (2006)
Cato Studies
"The Case for Auditing the Fed Is Obvious," Briefing Paper no. 118, April 27, 2010.
"Deficit Spending: A Scenario Analysis," Tax & Budget Bulletin no. 54, February 1, 2009.
"Does the Doctor Need a Boss?," by Arnold Kling and Michael F. Cannon, Briefing Paper no. 111, January 13, 2009.
"Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae: An Exit Strategy for the Taxpayer," Briefing Paper no. 106, September 8, 2008.
Opinion and Commentary
"What about the 99 Percent?," The New York Times (Online), November 30, 2011
"Solving the Long-Term Jobs Problem," by Arnold Kling and Nick Schulz, The American, July 27, 2011
"The New Commanding Heights," National Affairs, July 5, 2011
"Fannie, Freddie Lose Relevance," San Francisco Examiner, February 23, 2011
"Innovations Aren't the Problem," The New York Times (Online), April 27, 2010
Cato @ Liberty Blog Posts
"Hold a Hearing," September 26, 2008
"Some Talking Points," September 26, 2008
"Health Care Podcast," November 5, 2007
"The Massachusetts Canary," October 25, 2007
"Overtreated," October 10, 2007
Events
"Will Cost Containment Derail Health Care Reform?," June 2, 2009 [Capitol Hill Briefing]
"Seasteading: Homesteading the High Seas for Liberty," April 7, 2009 [Policy Forum]
"Why Markets Are the Key to Quality, Coordinated Medical Care," February 20, 2009 [Capitol Hill Briefing]
"Health Care University," December 10, 2007 [Capitol Hill Briefing]
"Crisis of Abundance: Rethinking How We Pay for Health Care," August 29, 2006 [Book Forum]
Speeches and Testimony
"The Collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac," Congressional Testimony, December 9, 2008.
Multimedia
The Case for Auditing the Fed is Obvious (May 27, 2010) [Daily Podcast, 08:32]
Arnold Kling discusses auditing the Fed on KTTH's The David Boze Show (May 3, 2010) [Media Highlights - Radio, 07:18]
From Poverty to Prosperity Revisited (February 16, 2010) [Daily Podcast, 08:15]
Arnold Kling discusses his book From Poverty to Prosperity: Intangible Assets, Hidden Liabilities and The Lasting Triumph over Scarcity on C-SPAN's Book TV (February 4, 2010) [Media Highlights - TV, 01:19:03]
From Poverty to Prosperity (November 10, 2009) [Daily Podcast, 08:17]
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