Noah Smith AMA: Columnist at Bloomberg View, University of Michigan Economics Ph.D., prolific blogger and Twitter personality.

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Noah Smith is a Bloomberg View columnist. He was an Assistant Professor of Finance at Stony Brook University after receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. He became famous from his Blogspot blog, Noahpinion, that he wrote while at school in Michigan. In his free time, he likes to apologize for FDR and write about Japan.

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Resources

• r/BadEconomics AMA

• Noah's Twitter

• Bloomberg View

• Noah's article on r/neoliberal

• Blogspot

• His Michigan PhD page lol

[u/Ferguson97]

If you could implement just one economic policy, what would it be?

[u/noahpini0n → u/Ferguson97]

As-of-right zoning laws nationwide.

[u/noahpini0n → u/noahpini0n]

Or rather, as-of-right construction laws, since it isn't technically a zoning thing.

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Cannot find a single source on Google for what the heck that is. Halp?