Study by Robert Whaples, summarized by Greg Mankiw:
90.1 percent disagree with the position that "the U.S. should restrict employers from outsourcing work to foreign countries."
87.5 percent agree that "the U.S. should eliminate remaining tariffs and other barriers to trade."
85.2 percent agree that "the U.S. should eliminate agricultural subsidies."
85.3 percent agree that "the gap between Social Security funds and expenditures will become unsustainably large within the next fifty years if current policies remain unchanged."
77.2 percent agree that "the best way to deal with Social Security's long-term funding gap is to increase the normal retirement age."
67.1 percent agree that "parents should be given educational vouchers which can be used at government-run or privately-run schools."
65.0 percent agree that "the U.S. should increase energy taxes."
They like the free market, don't they? Well, so do I. I basically agree with all of them except the bit about school vouchers -- I even willing to be convinced about that, but the data so far seem to speak strongly against the success of vouchers (as I vaguely recall). The incentive structures don't really point in the right direction. From the table, note that the above answers lump together "agree" and "strongly agree"; in fact, when it comes to vouchers, the agreement is not strong. If you disagree with the economists, here's why. All via Marginal Revolution.
