Josh Hendrickson on the Harris Economic Plan
ICLE Academic Affiliate Josh Hendrickson was quoted by National Review in a story about Vice President Kamala Harris’ proposed economic plan. You can read the full piece here.
The main criticism people generally have of presidential campaigns is that they’re “overly ambitious,” says Joshua Hendrickson, an associate professor of economics at the University of Mississippi. “They have a huge policy agenda, and you look at it and go, ‘Okay, you can’t possibly do all of these things. You can’t do a fraction of these things.’” Not so with Democrats’ new nominee, who has thus far declined to articulate in detail her vision for the future of the country she hopes to lead.
Harris’s 2024 presidential campaign is “so short on details” and “so short on policy proposals,” Hendrickson says, that it’s “not even clear what their overall vision is.” When she does take a position, she does so haphazardly, “throwing policies at the wall” without any “coherent pattern.”
…Economists are skeptical. “I don’t really understand how the federal government is going to do that, because the impediment to building houses is really coming from large cities in the United States who have zoning rules, and those are all local rules,” says Hendrickson, the University of Mississippi economist.