Has anyone reviewed *The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While
People Feel Worse* by Gregg Easterbrook?
Bill
Bill Lear wrote:
Has anyone reviewed *The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While
People Feel Worse* by Gregg Easterbrook?
This sounds like the kind of Panglossian horseshit you get from Brad
DeLong and Virginia Postrel.
From Publishers Weekly
Easterbrook sees a widespread case of cognitive
Oh damn. I will have to look at that crap, since I am taking on that
literature in my new book project.
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
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Michael Perelman wrote:
Oh damn. I will have to look at that crap, since I am taking on that
literature in my new book project.
btw, it came up in David Brooks's op-ed piece in the Times today. Brooks
is being groomed to replace Safire. My own rude comments are interspersed.
OP-ED COLUMNIST
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btw, it came up in David Brooks's op-ed piece in the Times today.
Brooks
is being groomed to replace Safire. My own rude comments are
interspersed.
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Refuting the Cynics
By DAVID BROOKS
The evidence also rebukes those gloomy liberals who for two
Why not rebut point by point ? E.g.,
If he says,
The American work ethic shifted, so that the average American
now works 350 hours a year 9 or 10 weeks longer than the average
European.
Then,
This is meaningless, because (1) is working longer without holidays a virtue
(2) what do you get
