Talk:Allan H. Meltzer

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Meltzer and the Council of Economic Advisers

"He served on the Council of Economic Advisors for both Presidents Kennedy and Ronald Reagan." This statement does not seem to be supported by the following list of past members of the Council, upon which AM's name does not appear: http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/cea/about/Former-Members.

Perhaps he was a staff member, as opposed to serving as a member of the CEA per se, but this would seem to require clarification. Nandt1 (talk) 19:38, 9 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Following up on my own query, I see that Meltzer's "Professional Biography" (http://wpweb2.tepper.cmu.edu/facultyAdmin/upload/url3_201108300001_A_Meltzer_Bio_Big.pdf) -- whose content he presumably checks himself -- reports him as being an "Acting Member" of the CEA during 1988-89. That would be at the tail end of the Reagan Administration. There is no claim in his Professional Biography of any involvement with the CEA during the Kennedy years. I propose to delete the Kennedy claim from our article and report the Acting Membership as per his bio. Nandt1 (talk) 00:06, 12 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Addressing edits per Meltzer and Lehmann (and Meltzer and Krugman)

A recent edit to this article had removed the reference to AM's initial response to the Lehmann rescue (which I can only read as approving), thus camouflaging his apparent subsequent reversal on the issue. Retouching the record to make ourselves appear more internally consistent is something we would no doubt all like to do to our own published writings, but it is surely not an appropriate approach to editing an avowedly objective reference work like Wikipedia, and I have restored the missing quote, while trying to make the language around the quote more neutral in tone than the earlier entry. (N.B., I should make it clear that in what I wrote above I did not mean to imply that the edit had been made by Meltzer himself).

Likewise, a reference to Krugman's critique of AM's inflation prediction had been eliminated. I have restored a reference to the fact of Krugman's challenge, while dropping the arguably more provocative language of the original entry with its reference to PK's characterization of AM as an "ostrich". Nandt1 (talk) 12:12, 29 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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