08.08.07

Clark exposed: a ‘visceral loathing of working class people’

Posted in Ultra Far Left, 1848+, Critique of Evolutionary Economy, Booknotes at 9:56 pm by nemo

Louis Proyect exposes Gregory Clark

Tyler Cowan: agrees with Gregory Clark that working class
shiftlessness is the cause of poverty

Thanks to Phil Gasper for alerting me to another NY Times article (”ECONOMIC SCENE: What Makes a Nation Wealthy? Maybe It’s the Working Stiff“) in praise of Gregory Clark’s sociobiological bullshit. Dated November 2, 2006, it was written by Tyler Cowan, an economist at George Mason University.

Cowan believes that institutional changes will not make a difference as long as workers remain shiftless.

Professor Clark’s pessimistic view is that most forms of policy advice or financial aid do not solve the problem of economic development. Unless the quality of labor rises, those would-be remedies are addressing symptoms, not causes.

I guess we are almost done here.

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