economists

Newt Gingrich likes to talk about Republicans regaining popular support by championing an agenda that has the support of an “overwhelming majority” of Republicans, Democrats and independents.  But how do Republicans regain intellectual credibility after so many retrograde years of anti-intellectualism?  Perhaps Republicans should look at areas where overwhelming majorities of the academic elites agree, then craft policies around those broad areas of intellectual agreement.  And then, let the Democrats take the anti-intellectual, self-discrediting positions for awhile.  Of the list below, #'s 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13 and 14 seem like excellent areas of agreement around which Republicans can make good policy. - Jon Henke

Greg Mankiw has a great set of the mostly in agreement propositions: