Arnold Kling

Arnold Kling is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute and author of Crisis of Abundance: Rethinking How We Pay for Health Care (Cato Institute: 2006).

Kling received his Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980. 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 writes on economic and political issues with Bryan Caplan at EconLog, is a contributing editor for TCSDaily, and is author of Learning Economics, a collection of essays on economic issues.