Brad DeLong, the grasping hands guy, with whom I have previously tussled on a number of occasions, recently ran a piece, Is America Today Really No More Unequal Economic Class-Wise than It Was in 1960?, attempting to sort out recent claims regarding prior claims regarding an alleged increase in economic inequality in the world today….
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Socio-political-cultural notes from all over: Jack Goldsmith is a gosh-darn liar, Joe and Bibi may be pulling a fast one, and Oliver Anthony is a jive turkey
O mores O tempores, eh, motherfucker? What a list, what a list, what a list. Oy vey, oy vey, oy vey. First and worst is elegantly bearded Harvard prick in chief Jack Goldsmith, whose motto is “not as bad as John Yoo”, which may or not be true, because John stabs you in the chest…
Noah Smith is an idiot! But not all the time!
No, Noah, the “Noahopinion” guy, is not always an idiot. Take, for example, this recent post, If this is a bad economy, please tell me what a good economy would look like, expressing a bit of amazement at how well things have worked out under Uncle Joe’s genially geriatric hand. In fact, Noah says he…
Passing the buck: Smith to DeLong to Krugman
Writing in Bloomberg View, Noah Smith offers Four Ways to Help the Midwest, prompting Brad DeLong to go off on a bit of a tangent, musing about “Regional Policy and Distributional Policy in a World Where People Want to Ignore the Value and Contribution of Knowledge- and Network-Based Increasing Returns” (aka “the Human Condition”), causing…