Must-Read: Greg Mankiw Forgot What He Teaches: "Mankiw’s [Trans-Pacific Parnership] column is a perfect example of how ideology works...
:...It provides a simple way to interpret the world — people who don’t agree with you are idiots or xenophobes — while sweeping aside inconvenient evidence to the contrary. And first-year economics is as powerful an ideology as we have in this country today...
https://medium.com/bull-market/greg-mankiw-forgot-what-he-teaches-2cf269b3aa74