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Labor Economics
- Bostonian 5y agoA follow up post is https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/01/where-i-differ-from-bryan-caplans-labor-econ-versus-the-world.html https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/01/wh... .
- bediger4000 5y agoA lot of the “central tenets of our secular religion” seem like straw men to me. Tenet #1: The main reason today’s workers have a decent standard of living is that government passed a bunch of laws protecting them. I mean, if we call equal treatment under the law "protecting them", sure. Tenet #4: The modern welfare state strikes a wise balance between compassion and efficiency. This is absolutely a straw man - I doubt you could find anyone saying that, even in countries that do have a welfare state of sorts, which is not the USA. Unless somehow the author of these "central tenets" considers the USA a welfare state, in which case we should ignore them entirely.