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Krugman is pushing policies that require high real income growth, precisely when real income growth is relatively low. He is putting the cart before the horse and asking for some burdensome policies precisely when they would be toughest to bear.
Tyler Cowen • The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better: A Penguin eSpecial from Dutton
Hans Morgenthau, the political theorist, has said that men don’t willingly accept the truth about human nature and especially about political nature. The aim of politics, Morgenthau says, is not to make people better or to alleviate their misery: it is to increase the power of one man or group of men against the power of another man or group of men
... See moreHoward Bloom • The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Incerto 4-Book Bundle
The political philosopher Danielle Allen makes a powerful argument that the fundamental purpose of the American public education system is to ensure an informed citizenry.
Ethan Zuckerman • Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them
David Foster Wallace • Deciderization 2007—a Special Report
Time, March 26, 2006
Charles Krauthammer • Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics
The result of all these trends is an odd distortion in our perception of what governments can and should do, and a stunted imagination in relation to what it could be.