PAULAHA
Dennis F. Paulaha received B.S. and M.A. degrees in economics from the University of Minnesota and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Washington. As a college and university professor, he taught macroeconomic and microeconomic theory at the principles, intermediate, advanced, and graduate level, monetary theory and policy, environmental economics, and special issues courses. In the real world, he wrote economic/investment newsletters with as many as 70,000 paid subscribers and was vice president of research for a national brokerage company. A few thoughts The idea that economists are the smartest guys in the room was never true. If they were, they would not have made economics a branch of philosophy, they would have followed the physical sciences and the scientific method. Debating whether or not a tree that falls in the woods makes a noise if there is no one there to hear it may not hurt anyone (assuming it does not fall on anyone), but it may be a questionable use of resourc
