Buy my new essay "Gaza: End of the Illusion" | 20-page PDF for $7 | Tweet form: Free (see below) | sethackerman.sellfy.store/p/gaza-the-end… 1| Israel’s blood-soaked debacle in Gaza now lumbers through its tenth month. Dwarfing the Bosnian (1992-95), Syrian (2011-2018), or Salvadoran (1979-1990) wars, it is killing Palestinians at a rate that, by conservative estimates, more closely approximates the Cambodian

when raz segal, the israeli-american historian, gained attention for calling israel’s war in gaza "a textbook case of genocide" back in october, the name sounded familiar so i googled him and realized he was the author of a book that i had stumbled on by accident several years ago: "Genocide in the Carpathians: War, Social Breakdown, and Mass Violence, 1914–1945". it’s a history of "subcarpathian ruthenia," a truly cursed region of eastern europe where the final solution was implemented with exceptional efficiency in the spring-summer of 1944:

I've resisted the urge to reply to this because I'm very late finishing an article on a different topic, but I can't anymore. Just a couple points.

https://twitter.com/whstancil/status/1734593025777516730

1) wage percentiles can be v misleading. "true" wage changes can be swamped by the distorting effects of changes in composition and distribution of employment. if everyone in the bottom 50% lost their jobs, "10th pctl wages" would instantly shoot up to never-before-seen levels.

@BrankoMilan branko, the study of labor managed firms has come a long way since the days of vanek. the whole literature, both empirical and theoretical, is summarized and synthesized by gregory dow in two excellent books. i'll jut say one thing here: @BrankoMilan the ward model, where workers maximize income per worker, is fatally flawed. it assumes rational maximizers, yet rational maximizers would never behave as in his model -- a high productivity/high wage firm would not stay small to maximize income/worker;