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….
Tag: Walter Scheidel
Yo, Edward Gibbon! Here’s a news flash! Only MAN is “vile”!
Escape from Rome! Would that thou couldst! A number of months ago, I stumbled across Walter Scheidel’s Escape From Rome, which I thought was just the bestest book on Rome ever—the bestest I had ever read, at least—arguing that Rome “fell” in very large part because its creation was an anomaly. Unlike the other “classic”…
Does the libertarian movement need a kick in the pants? Or is it just Nick Gillespie?
Sorry, Nick, but if you give Literature R Us an opening for a cheap shot, we’re going to take it. Nick incautiously let his guard down last month with a post in Reason, “The Libertarian Movement Needs a Kick in the Pants”, in itself a riposte, as it were, to Tyler Cowen’s thought-, if not…