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Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

I'd add that much our political world loves to emphasize incentives and all that, because hyping the potential incentive effects of taxes and benefits can help justify high inequality. Empirical evidence serves as a reality check against this bias 10/ — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Oct. 11, 2021

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In other words, the field tends to suffer from 101ism, the urge to interpret the world in terms of what you learn in the first few chapters of the textbook. Empirical evidence, however, often finds that the complexity of the real world resists 101ism 9/ — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Oct. 11, 2021

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So although the work honored by this prize isn't at all political, it has political implications. (The truth tends to do that) 11/ — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Oct. 11, 2021