David Froomkin: Interesting research (lpeproject.org/blog/the-pol...) providing some confirmation for @himself.bsky.social's classic criticism of "left neoliberalism" (crookedtimber.org/2011/07/19/2...).

Interesting research (lpeproject.org/blog/the-pol...) providing some confirmation for @himself.bsky.social's classic criticism of "left neoliberalism" (crookedtimber.org/2011/07/19/2...).

The Political Effects of Neoliberalismlpeproject.org Why have less-educated Americans, long the base of the Democratic Party, flocked to Republicans in recent decades? New research shows that much of this change can be explained by the Democratic Party’...

The best and pithiest statement of the left neo-liberalism critique imo was Cosma's - bactra.org/weblog/778.h...

Is there a critique of Mancur Olson implicit here? It seems like redistributive rather than predistributive policies economize on collective action effort. People just have to vote, and the mechanism of redistribution is highly centralized. But maybe Olson's motivational assumptions are wrong.

Shalizi is always superb. even, or rather especially when i disagree. not much of the latter here tho.

Half of "my" writing these days is not really done by me so much as my mental model of Cosma.

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