Difference between revisions of "Reviews of "The Great Stagnation""

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[[Category:Tyler Cowen]]

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{{DES | des = [[Tyler Cowen]]'s short, digital-only book is a non-academic attempt to divert attention from growing inequality.  It does so by lying with statistics.}}

{{DES | des = [[Tyler Cowen]]'s short, digital-only book is a non-academic attempt to divert attention from growing inequality.  It does so by lying with statistics.}}

Conservatives (including libertarians) require a constant flow of crisis stories to justify their preferred policies.  Books like "The Road To Serfdom", "The Bell Curve" and now "The Great Stagnation" follow a long tradition of scare mongering.  They are pseudo-academic: they have no peer review, they are addressed to the general public, and their foundations in data and modeling range from lacking to pathetic.  They are designed to permit the worst sorts of confirmation bias: supporters of the book position can see commies in every woodpile.  And a few years after publication, nobody takes them seriously.

Conservatives (including libertarians) require a constant flow of crisis stories to justify their preferred policies.  Books like "The Road To Serfdom", "The Bell Curve" and now "The Great Stagnation" follow a long tradition of scare mongering.  They are pseudo-academic: they have no peer review, they are addressed to the general public, and their foundations in data and modeling range from lacking to pathetic.  They are designed to permit the worst sorts of confirmation bias: supporters of the book position can see commies in every woodpile.  And a few years after publication, nobody takes them seriously.