I like this piece very much

artappraiser — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 21:45:32 +0000

I like this piece very much because it is not the typical agitprop on this topic (not matter what the opinion is, I find most blogs and op-eds on topic to be bound up in ideology,) and instead is really really trying to look at the matter both objectively and out-of-the-usual boxes.

I especially like the summary paragraph, not the least of which because it's so honest about this all partly being a crap shoot:

Yet the scattershot nature of the data does provide some guidance. Inequality has risen almost everywhere, which, Levy says, means that Autor is right that inequality is not just a result of American-government decisions. But the fact that inequality has risen unusually quickly in the United States suggests that government does have an impact. Still, economists certainly cannot tell us which policy is the right one. What do we value more: growth or fairness? That’s a value judgment. And for better or worse, it’s up to us.

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I like this piece very much