New issue of Econ Journal Watch

Great apprehensions,
prolonged Depression. Writing in 2008 in the American Economic
Review, Gauti Eggertsson claims that Hoover instantiated three
policy dogmas, and that, by overcoming Hoover’s dogmas, Roosevelt
shifted expectations and brought recovery by the end of his first term.
A thoroughgoing critique is offered here by Steven Horwitz. (Professor
Eggertsson is invited to reply in a future issue.) 

The policy views of
American Economic Association members. Robert Whaples shares the
results of a new survey that includes many new policy-opinion questions. 

Economic Notes from
Underground. Four confessions:

• Bruce Benson tells his
  troubled story—afflicted for 25 years with economic dissociative
  identity disorder—but it ends happily.
• David Hakes tells how he
  complicated the math to get a paper published.
• Stephen Kinsella tells of
  having to teach what you don’t believe in.
• William P. Leonard tells
  how he teaches one thing in economics courses but, as college
  administrator, practices unconscionably to the contrary.