#Redistribution

Higher education and family income make people less likely to support redistribution -- surprising only the misguided people who think Democrats should try and win in the sun belt and
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@jwhandley17 I've been working on a building up a comprehensive set of @BESResearch demographic variables, so I can run dredge-regressions without "attitudinal/behavioural/political" variables displacing everything./1 On this chart
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Too many people think β€œWhy should my taxes help other people?” as if roads and fire departments and such don’t already do that.My thought is: if the other people in
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Bailouts are wrong for several reasons:1) demand has fallen off a cliff, many airlines are zombie companies2) monies are politically allocated, not to directly fighting the virus3) it’s upward redistribution
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socialism is not when the state does stuffsocialism is not more taxessocialism is not "equality of outcome"socialism is not "post-modern neo-marxism"socialism is not against individual freedomsocialism is not authoritari
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One of the shittiest things about the way this lockdown is being regulated, other than the obvious systemic racism within the institutions doing the regulating, is how it disempowers communities,
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Here are some of the things I've written about the UBI/"cut 'em a cheque" approach.1998: The Growing Gap, pp. 101-104 https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/reports/growing-gap-report2016: Basic incomes vs basic services htt
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So glad to see in print @AEAjournals Macro my work with Tasso Adamopoulos on land reforms and agricultural productivity. Below my main takeaways. 1/7https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/mac.20150222 Evaluating the aggregate productivi
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Conservatives endlessly whine about how traditional values are being eroded and, yet, they also get a hard on about technology, business growth, and economic growth. Accelerating change in the economy,
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1. Land distribution in South Africa was modeled after land distribution in US during the Revolution. New Yorkers created local committees to deal with the Loyalists and the legitimacy of
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J'ai dû suivre une 10aine de webinars depuis le début du confinement mais celui-ci est de très loin celui qui me parle le +, pcq il va au delà des
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This is about as offensive a marker of the direction of policy as I have read. If you care about equal opportunity, you should be trying to draw attention to
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Four nutshells of Corbynism (not about the man himself but the ideas and politics he came to symbolise): 1. Emphasis on redistribution of wealth but also power of 'voice' away
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1/ We have a BLACK AGENDA, of which reparations is the heartbeat @nhannahjones, thus we’re not β€œone note”. That language is so disrespectful. 2/ Reparations isn’t about money as much
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maybe a hot take on this side of twitter, but the severance of the tie between qualities of moral goodness (uprightness, self-sufficiency, love, care) and the politics of redistribution was
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1. Please hear me out: Is there a machine you can plug to a generator that can tell you the delta between the total electricity a building is consuming and
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