Actually, he praises two of them.
His 2013 book The Three Languages of Politics is a great example of that. The book sheds a bright light on our political life by arguing that progressives, conservatives, and libertarians tend to see political questions as arrayed along three distinct axes: Progressive think about politics along the oppressor/oppressed axis; conservatives think in terms of the civilization/barbarism axis; and libertarians think in terms of the freedom/coercion axis. . .Try that insight on for a minute as a lens through which to look around at our politics and you’ll find that an awful lot of our debates make much more sense.
Kling’s latest book, out this week and available practically for free on Amazon, is to my mind his greatest contribution yet. Specialization and Trade: A Re-introduction to Economics, is as ambitious as its subtitle suggests. Kling argues that our understanding of the fundamental character and purpose of the discipline of economics has been distorted by the form that the professionalization of the discipline has taken.
Those are just excerpts. More kind words at the link.
The Three Languages book was excellent. It completely changed how I categorize my opinions and the opinions of those who think differently. Even better, the book was no longer than it had to be. Too many authors have an interesting point to make, but feel that they have to stretch it out to many hundreds of pages.
I’m looking forward to the new one. It’s next on my Kindle’s wish list.