Tag: Scott Winship

Bogeyman Economics

Jan 20, 2012

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mwkruse

in Economics, Health and Medicine, Politics, Sociology, Trends: Social

National Affairs: Bogeyman Economics This is a very lengthy article that is well worth reading. I'm just presenting the opening and the conclusion here. In short, to quote a former US President from eighty years ago, "… let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning,…
Men’s earnings have NOT declined by 28 percent since 1969

Mar 29, 2011

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mwkruse

in Economic News, Gender and Sex, Trends: Economic

Scott Winship Web: Men's earnings have NOT declined by 28 percent since 1969 … But he ends by trumpeting Hamilton Project analyses claiming to show that men's earnings declined by 28 percent between 1969 and 2009. This claim, like the Mandel analyses, reinforces Cowen's argument that we are in a Great Stagnation, but it's not…