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I think you are seeing this through European eyes. This is the kind of thing that gets you yelled at, threatened and told you're the "kind of [people] ruining a
by freshhawk 14y ago
I think you are seeing this through European eyes. This is the kind of thing that gets you yelled at, threatened and told you're the "kind of [people] ruining america" if you talk about it in the US.
It's not controversial among people who are educated in the subject, but among the general amerian public it's incredibly controversial.
- toyg 14y agoThe problem is that the feedback loop between US and Europe ends up being very unbalanced: American thinkers are hugely influential in Europe, but European ones get disqualified in the US almost by default because they're "socialists". This is a problem for us Europeans as much as for you.
- dmpk2k 14y agoI was shocked how hard it is to find any books about ordoliberalism in North America, even though it was a driver of economic thought and policy in Germany for decades. The only book I found was at a major university's library, in German. It was a "WTF" moment.
- freshhawk 14y agoThey aren't disqualified by any thinkers you would want to listen to, but yes, in general they are. Americans, in broadly general terms, aren't interested in non-American things. Or intellectual anything. So yeah, combine those two together and you get the worst of those two general trends.
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