Arnold Kling (born 1954) is an American economist, scholar, and blogger known for his writings on EconLog, an economics blog, along with Bryan Caplan and David R.

[1] Kling also has his own blog, askblog, which carries the motto: "taking the most charitable views of those who disagree."

Kling graduated from Swarthmore College in 1975 and received a Ph.D. in economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He served as a senior economist at Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) from 1986 to 1994.

Kling has commented on hydraulic macroeconomics and he is also the author of a number of books on economics and politics.