Arnold Kling

Who is Arnold Kling?

Arnold Kling is an American blogger previously known for posting on EconLog, an economics blog, along with Bryan Caplan and David R. Henderson. Kling now has his own blog, askblog, is an Adjunct Scholar for the Cato Institute and is affiliated with the Mercatus Center.

Kling graduated from Swarthmore College in 1975 and received a Ph.D. in economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He worked as an economist in the Federal Reserve System from 1980 to 1986. He served as a senior economist at Freddie Mac from 1986 to 1994. He started, developed and sold Homefair.com from 1994 to 1999. Kling is an adjunct scholar with the Cato Institute. He teaches statistics and economics at the Berman Hebrew Academy in Rockville, Maryland. In 2004 and 2005, he taught "Economics for the Citizen" at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.