Marvin Gandall wrote: > > Julio wrote: > > > From the "inside," things don't look the way you describe *at all*. > > If there has been any ideological shift to register in the last > > decade, it's been precisely one in the opposite direction. And this > > is not surprising given the persistence of poverty and inequality in > > the globe, the emergence of China and Asia in general, the iffy > > conditions in the U.S. economy, and the military/foreign policy fiasco > > of the country under Bush. These things have a strong effect even on > > the economists. > ============================== > This Economist piece from last September, citing Blinder among others, > registers the shift you're describing. The ideological groundwork is being > laid for greater income support for workers displaced by outsourcing to curb > growing protectionist pressures and political dissatisfaction.
Too many leftists are flocking to a once-in-a-lifetime sale of 10 pairs (of rose-tinted glasses) for the price of one. See two articles in the current NYRB: James Lardner, "'Disposable Americans,'" and Jonathan Freedland, "Bush's Big Achievement." Carrol
