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Chris Becker
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The number one thing that makes me want to leave economics is the contempt we have for the people we study. It’s not always explicit. Which is part of why
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There’s a debate over whether Econ classes make people more selfish or if selfish people are attracted to (“select into”) Econ. I’d say either way that’s kind of a problem,
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This gets at exactly what bugs me about public Econ. The hand wringing over tax incidence and counterintuitive “unintended consequences” is so disproportionate to the concern over the common sense
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Thread: It blows my mind that Gary Becker’s Nobel-prize winning accomplishments include arguing that racial discrimination could be effectively reduced by market competition. In 1957. Three years after Brown v.
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Thread: Why do technocrats swoon over mechanistic policies like the EITC but almost ignore unions as an anti-poverty tool? Because technocrats don’t actually trust poor people. The EITC protects workers
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