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Now I'm less Angry on the Internet I do think that part of what's happening is that people are not actually used to a healthy political culture wherein you do a pilot scheme to see if something works and discuss its comparative merits. They're used to excuses for inaction and bad faith quibbling.

lastpositivist

But a rabidly anti-intellectual culture wherein asking about whether a proposed means is the best way to achieve social ends is... well it would destroy socialism, utterly. In fact I think the failure of previous socialist states are not unrelated to developing this exact culture.

1240445

Chris Hayes was good on this in a conversation with Ezra Klein before Mamdani was elected - www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/o... - the whole discussion is good on the experimentation/attention dynamic.

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It's sort of funny that one of the FDR experiments was "reduce the deficit" probably added 5 years to the depression.

Ответ для Matt Darling
Ответ для Kody Carmody

Not from any specific paper - I don't think it's particularly controversial? But haven't followed that closely.

Ответ для Matt Darling

sorry, yeah, I think the claim is uncontroversial! I was just idly wondering about how to square the two more broadly. (a) The paper rejects the standard monetarist gold inflows story that I assume Selgin believes; (b) the paper is missing the labor market story. I just need to read the book!