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The original paper refers to specifically to economic elites, but this article quite strangely redefines this group as a credentialist/cultural elite that is mo
by mrxd 5y ago
The original paper refers to specifically to economic elites, but this article quite strangely redefines this group as a credentialist/cultural elite that is motivated by status and influence within bureaucracies and favors socialism. This seems to be a description of the author’s personal experiences within his university, but it ends up being a significant misrepresentation of the actual paper, which refers to an economic elite, where support for socialism is lowest.
It’s quite strange to see a paper about economic power exerting control over government policy being summarized as “elites support harsh, intrusive, and punitive business taxes, regulations, and legal liability.”
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- xondono 5y ago> where support for socialism is lowest. Citation needed. The paper does indeed limit the meaning, but also concedes that this interpretation of what they are measuring is possible. > Not all “elite theories” share this focus. Some emphasize social status or institutional position > What we cannot do with these data is distinguish definitively among different versions of elite theories.
- mrxd 5y ago> Citation needed. https://www.cato.org/blog/poll-59-americans-have-favorable-views-capitalism-59-have-unfavorable-views-socialism https://www.cato.org/blog/poll-59-americans-have-favorable-v...
- jackcosgrove 5y agoThe author touches on this: > Most ordinary people miss this conflict by not distinguishing these two different kinds of “rich”. The British refer to these classes as the academic elite and the commercial elite. They compete with each other.