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Former Federal Reserve Board Vice Chair Alan Blinder and former chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers Joseph Stiglitz argue that: 1) the estate tax fails as a redistributive measure because rich people have become too good at circumventing it; 2) the considerable effort put into circumventing the tax wastes economic resources; and 3) the tax encourages consumption, instead of savings and investment.
Let me quote from the textbook (by William Baumol and Alan Blinder) that I assigned when I taught Economics 1 last year: "When a firm pollutes a river, it uses some of society's resources just as surely as when it burns coal.
Shepard's essay was pretty obviously intended as a response to economists--including Princeton's Alan Blinder, Morgan Stanley's Steve Roach, and me--who have recently been critical of the New Economy doctrine, among other things pointing out (though apparently to little effect) the dependence of that doctrine on the speedometer fallacy.