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What have we learned, what have done in the ten years since #OccupyWallStreet first raised attention to growing inequalities in incomes and wealth?
This thread reflects on a series of decade-old posts I wrote to communicate important facts and policy lessons from good economics.
This thread reflects on a series of decade-old posts I wrote to communicate important facts and policy lessons from good economics.
10 years ago a @globeandmail columnist wrote
"our system redistributes the wealth ... from middle-class workers in the private sector to inefficient and expensive unions in the public sector. Among the biggest beneficiaries of this redistribution is the higher-education industry"
"our system redistributes the wealth ... from middle-class workers in the private sector to inefficient and expensive unions in the public sector. Among the biggest beneficiaries of this redistribution is the higher-education industry"
So in my first post I pit Margaret Wente against @MarkJCarney to suggest a first lesson: park your ideology and focus on good economics to recognize the problem and offer effective policy options.
milescorak.com/2011/11/09/ine…
milescorak.com/2011/11/09/ine…
