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Scott Adams is starting the party, not Dilbert. Credit where credit is due and all that.
I am curious to know your opinion on the econ party policy suggestions. Bryan Caplan could weigh in on whether they are actually agreed upon by most economists, too.
I don’t agree with some of them, nor the assumed rationale, but then I am not “most economists.”
Would you even want a prize from Ann Applebaum?
I have no doubt that being poor is painful, and that blue collar jobs are hard work. (I’m not sure why it follows, as it does to the Crooked Timber poster, that the general retirement age should not be raised, as opposed to this arguing for better treatment for those whose jobs wear their bodies out faster.)
Professor Krueger is apparently surprised that people who self-report high levels of pain also self-report high levels of disability status. While I think it’s very unlikely that most people on disability are faking, I would also think it quite unlikely that anyone who was faking would so readily admit to it.
Kathy G depresses me. If we can’t agree to raise the social security retirement age by a few years, we can’t agree on anything. People will need the extra time to save regardless of the financial health of the system.
Credit?!? Credit!?! Without Dilbert, Scott Adams would be nobody!
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