Michael A. Lewis

Wow, I had never heard of this game until now!

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What I should've also mentioned in the piece is that some adults are exempt from the job ethic. Those who're "independently wealthy" or related to those who are:

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We Must Challenge the Job Ethic I recently co-authored an essay arguing that a Universal Basic Income (UBI) might attain the goals of Guaranteed Income advocates better than a targeted Guaranteed Income would. I stand by the points ...

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Unconditional Cash Assistance, Randomized Controlled Trials, and the Logic of Statistical Inference On July 28 of this year a New York Times article by Jason DeParle called “Study May Undercut Idea That Cash Payments to Poor Families Help Child Development” came out (https://www.nytimes.

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Essay about the the recent study of unconditional cash and child development the NY Times covered:

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Listened to the podcast episode. After hearing you there and reading your piece on your “conversion” to democratic socialism, I was impressed by your willingness to change your mind about things so fundamental. That’s pretty rare in my circles. 🙂

who has rights to what things, the main causes of social ills, etc., political polarization may be around for quite some time.

I finally listened to the episode. Important point you raised (although you didn’t word it this way) about the ethics of “punching up”. Hopefully, my wording accurately captures what you were getting it. Also, I agree with your point that since there are real differences in beliefs about fairness,

Will check this one out too.

Didn’t know that. Will take a look.

Meant "role" not "roll."

And so markets under democratic socialism may need to be regulated in ways that go beyond redistribution and beyond how they're regulated now. Looking forward to listening to the episode!

should have no place within democratic socialism, since centralized or decentralized planning, with no roll for markets, could be worse than inefficient markets would be. But it would mean that by using markets we could be using a more flawed method of allocation than Church seems to be suggesting.

on assumptions but claims "they are not unreasonable." As I recall, the first fundamental theorem assumes perfectly competitive markets, which I suspect many would consider an unreasonable assumption. If that assumption doesn't hold, then markets may not be efficient. That doesn't mean markets

I plan to listen to it some time today. Also, I noticed that in the article, Church referred to the first welfare theorem of economics. Since the theorem states that markets are efficient, he's using it to justify a role for markets within democratic socialism. He admits that the theorem is based

I did. 😊 I haven't gotten the chance to listen yet, but followed the link you have there and found out that J. Church is now a democratic socialist.

Well, I didn't see this coming:

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I first encountered J. Church's work about 6 years ago and was inspired to write this:

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YouTube video by Michael Lewis Michael A. Lewis and Jordan Moss cover of Angel from Montgomery

Me and @jordanmossbx.bsky.social on open mic night in the Bronx:

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What’s the argument for any use being a problem? I’ve heard arguments re environmental costs, copyright issues, and job impact. Is there more?

I had no idea. Sorry to hear about your diagnosis but glad it was successful!

🙂 🙂

I know it’s not, I’m just curious.

the public’s views of welfare along with other policies for poor folks started to change. Another book called Regulating the Lives of Women (think that’s the name of it) makes a similar point. On another note, I wonder how many people under 40 or so get the Mr. Howell reference. 🙂

The point you make about changing views re who is deserving of benefits (from “widows and orphans” to “welfare queens”) reminded me of a book called “The Color of Welfare.” It argues that as welfare rolls were made up of higher proportions of divorced, never married, or Black women,

Have come across the book Modeling Social Behavior by P. Smaldino. Wondering if folks have read it and what those who have think of it as an intro to agent-based modeling. @kevinzollman.com @cailinmeister.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social

This is one of the main ways I use it too.

Conrad’s point about reporting percentages is a good one and extends beyond work and UBI. A % reduction or increase doesn’t tells us much if we don’t know the absolute baseline.