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Entries by Jonathan Weiler from 06/2010

How Victorianism Pervades Our Economic Debates

| Posted 06.16.2010 | Business
Read More: David Brooks, Stimulus Spending, Deficit Reduction, Deficit Hawks, Brad Delong, Tobin Tax, Victorian Morality, Dean Baker, Bush Tax Cuts, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Business News

Public discussion about appropriate taxing and spending priorities have become warped by an insidious, if often implicit, moralism.

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President Obama, Ronald Reagan and Our Fraying Social Contract

| Posted 06.22.2010 | Politics
Read More: Haves and Have Nots, Ronald Reagan, President Obama, David Cay Johnston, Politics News

If Obama continues to defer excessively to pedigree, expertise and privilege, he will doom to failure his most forceful promise during the campaign: to "heal" the deepest "divisions" in society.

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