Arnold Kling

Summary

I am "retired," but I seek ways to improve the culture of intellectual discourse. I have a regular substack newsletter, or blog, at arnoldkling.substack.com In June, 2025, I created, using Claude code, an immersive online seminar at soccode.vercel.app. The user reads a chapter in dialogue format and can participate via a CallonMe feature or engage in dialogue with the professor via an OfficeHours feature. I hope to inspire the creation of a higher education organization that is a network rather than a campus. This project needs a CEO (not me) who is very well connected in the business world, both to find potential faculty and to provide students with placement opportunities. Students would not get grades or diplomas, but would instead obtain letters of introduction and letters of recommendation from faculty. These would be useful because the faculty network would be have many connections. Instruction would be highly decentralized, with faculty and students negotiating course design. Although most learning would be remote, there would be several conferences per year at which students and faculty would meet in person. (https://arnoldkling.substack.com/p/how-should-college-work-422?s=w) or https://arnoldkling.substack.com/p/white-paper-for-network-based-higher Prior to that, I published "The Three Languages of Politics," a book about the way people stigmatize members of other political tribes. My background includes economics, housing finance, health care policy, political psychology, entrepreneur. In addition to The Three Languages of Politics, I have published: Specialization and Trade, which offers a heterodox perspective on economic analysis and methods; Crisis of Abundance: Rethinking how we pay for Health Care, which is still relevant to today's health care policy debate; Unchecked and Unbalanced, about the discrepancy between knowledge and power; From Poverty to Prosperity (with Nick Schulz), on the significance for an economy of its intangible assets, including innovation and cultural institutions; and other books I have also written several articles for the quarterly National Affairs, numerous book review essays for the Library of Economics and Liberty, and many other essays. arnoldkling.com