Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

RT @WaltHickey: John Bolton for once finds himself on the other side of a preemptive strike based on flimsy evidence. — PolitiTweet.org

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The current setup raises a lot of unrealistic expectations about economists’ ability to explain the economy, while giving short shrift to the fact that if you have an applied math question about the past you’d better ask an economist not a historian. — PolitiTweet.org

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To be serious: “what share of the fall in the black/white life expectancy gap is due to the Clean Air Act” is about the past and not really about the economy, but an economist is much more likely to answer it. But an economist can’t tell you why the neoliberal turn happened. — PolitiTweet.org

@mattyglesias Right, all those applied math questions about the past that people often have...

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