I just found out that the Stossel show I taped was on this week, not next week as I had thought. It will be shown again tonight at midnight EDT and 9:00 p.m. PDT. I address “Buy American,” fair trade, and so-called sweatshops.
Oct 30 2011
Is at the end of this paragraph, from Eric Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee (BM), Race Against the Machine: When SBTC [skill-biased technological change] increases the incomes of high-skill workers and decreases incomes and employment for low-skill workers, the net effect may be a fall in overall demand. High-skill wo...
Oct 30 2011
He writes, When an economy is not healthy, there is less exchange. There is less buying and selling of goods and services and labor. To describe that unhealthiness as less aggregate demand is just to put the problem into different words. That is, of course, my view. A lot of people think they understand aggregate de...
Oct 29 2011
I just found out that the Stossel show I taped was on this week, not next week as I had thought. It will be shown again tonight at midnight EDT and 9:00 p.m. PDT. I address "Buy American," fair trade, and so-called sweatshops.
READER COMMENTS
Socal Bill
Oct 30 2011 at 2:14am
I saw the show…you look much younger on TV than your picture on Econlog. What’s up with that?! Time for an update pic. Oh, and you made alot of sense on the show as well.
Irwin W. Baker
Oct 30 2011 at 7:33am
Saw it too. No agism here.
Recommended the econlib link to my Ron Paul supporting son.
Say Hi to Mr. Sowell for me. He’s my hero.
David R. Henderson
Oct 30 2011 at 9:32am
@Socal Bill,
Thanks. Maybe it’s the make-up. I had the exact opposite impression though: I looked at myself and went, “OMG, I’m getting old.” 🙂
@Irwin W. Baker,
Thanks. I’ve got a suggestion for you. Write an appreciative letter to Tom Sowell telling him some specific things you like about his work. I think he would appreciate that. My guess is that he gets a lot of positive letters about his work but many fewer that tell him specific things the person likes.
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