Check out Cafe Hayek, a blog that offers a counterpoint to Krugman’s positions. “Doctors’ incomes are not a cause of higher spending. Doctors’ incomes being high are a result of the same underlying forces that cause higher total spending in the United States relative to the rest of the world — an increase in the demand for medicine driven by third-party payments — governmental and private.”
Cafehayek.com is run by two George Mason University economists: Donald Boudreaux, chairman of the economics department and former president of libertarian think tank Foundation for Economic Education; and Russell Roberts, professor of economics and a student of Milton Friedman’s. Roberts also is former director of the Center for Experiential Learning at Washington University.
