This page presents the Econ Journal Watch symposium called “My Most Regretted Statements.”
The journal invited several leading intellectual figures to tell of their most regretted statements and to reflect on why they now regret those statements. The symposium Prologue elaborates on the motivation.
The symposium contains these contributions:
Monique Bégin tells of a statement she often repeated in her time as Canada’s Minister of National Health & Welfare: “Canada is the Sweden of the Americas.”Michael Boskin reflects on his time as Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and the hazards of misattribution, of not controlling op-ed titles, and of equations going missing.Tyler Cowen reflects on his circa 2007 underestimation of the likelihood of a major financial crisis.
Read the symposium in its entirety here.
The symposium was published as part of the May 2017 issue of the journal.