Prominent Economists, Including Eight Nobel Laureates: ‘Do Not Vote for Donald Trump’

[highplainsdem]

Source: WSJ

A group of 370 economists, including eight Nobel laureates in economics, have signed a letter warning against the election of Republican nominee Donald Trump, calling him a “dangerous, destructive choice” for the country.

Signatories include economists Angus Deaton of Princeton University, who won the economics Nobel last year, and Oliver Hart of Harvard University, who was one of the two Nobel winners this year.

The letter is notable because it is less partisan or ideological than such quadrennial exercises, and instead takes issue with Mr. Trump’s history of promoting debunked falsehoods.

“He misinforms the electorate, degrades trust in public institutions with conspiracy theories and promotes willful delusion over engagement with reality,” said the signatories, which also include Paul Romer, the new chief economist at the World Bank, and Kenneth Arrow, the 1972 Nobel winner.

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Read more: http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2016/11/01/prominent-economists-including-eight-nobel-laureates-do-not-vote-for-donald-trump/

[rivegauche]

1. Nice, but you know

that Trumpkins are 1) too stupid to understand what economists are saying, and 2) they just don't care what a disaster he is. They literally do not care that he's a corrupt, lying fraud with criminal and rapist histories. You simply cannot reach people like that.

[Matthew Rose]

2. If someone would pay a bunch of toothless, confederate flag waving

people to talk about how awful Drumpf is, we might get through to some of these right-wingers.

*actors may be required.

[Skittles]

3. you are overreaching