David Warsh: Back to Cranks at AEI: “John Makin, an economist long associated with the American Enterprise Institute, died last week…. He quit his professorship at the University of Washington to join the conservative think-tank in Washington, DC, in 1984…. Makin’s hiring in 1984 was widely taken as a sign of AEI’s determination to buttress … Continue reading Morning Must-Read: David Warsh: Back to Cranks at AEI