Justin Wolfers gives David Brat a pass on a confession of ignorance:
When an MSNBC interviewer asked David Brat, the economics professor at Randolph-Macon College who toppled Eric Cantor in a primary challenge Tuesday, whether he opposed the minimum wage, he responded on Wednesday, “Um, I don’t have a well-crafted response on that one.”
The political class is billing it as a gaffe. But Mr. Brat’s fellow economists would probably be far more generous.
Assessing the evidence on the effects of the minimum wage is a tricky business, and the evidence isn’t strong enough to support the certainties that pundits seem to demand.
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