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Re:Why Are Economists Giving Piketty the Cold Shoulder? (2017) by bigbaguette on Sunday March 31, 2019 @12:50PM (#19536579)
Thing is populists tactics wouldn't get as much traction if the prejudice was not as bad, or worsening in the first place. Populism starts as a natural consequence of misery and lack of education, then becomes a cause that keeps reinforcing itself until the guillotine moment.

Solving the populism issue means tackling the root issues it feeds from first.

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Re:Why Are Economists Giving Piketty the Cold Shoulder? (2017) by geezerjay on Sunday March 31, 2019 @01:21PM (#19536805)
> Thing is populists tactics wouldn't get as much traction if the prejudice was not as bad, or worsening in the first place.

The problem is that prejudice is also invented and disseminated by these unscrupulous politicians with their populist rhetoric. We see that in any extreme cormer of the political spectrum, whether its anti-capitalist socialists or racial supremacists. History is packed with examples where totalitarian regimes outright negate science to push their absurd populist rhetoric.

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Re:Why Are Economists Giving Piketty the Cold Shoulder? (2017) by mcguire on Sunday March 31, 2019 @03:49PM (#19537910)
Which of the anti-capitalist socialist, racial supremacists, or totalitarians are responsible for the recent drops in life expectancy in the US, out of curiosity?

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/us-life-expectancy...

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