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[PEN-L:1224] Re: Patriotic economics: a provocation



>What about telling the story that American economics is properly a high wage
>economics and that adherence to a low-wage economics is UNAMERICAN? That is
>to say, for example, that not only is NAIRU questionable as a theory and
>misleading as a guide for policy, it is first and foremost FOREIGN.
>
>The pitfall of such a rhetorical strategy is that it could skirt on
>xenophobia, anti-semitism and a justification of imperialism.

"Skirt on"? Cover itself in like a dog rolling in a raccoon roadkill
carcass, rather...


Brad DeLong



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