I'm not aware of any academic economists who say "the MW is good/bad". They talk about it terms of positive and negative effects, and frequently qualified to a

I'm not aware of any academic economists who say "the MW is good/bad". They talk about it terms of positive and negative effects, and frequently qualified to a particular location or industry (read both UW studies, for example; the researchers generally tend to present their findings without editorialization). When it hits the media, it gets blown out into sensationalist headlines that apply broad-stroke good/bad filters to the concept as a whole without any of the subtlety or nuance of the original research.