I don't really think this was true, the empirical literature was mixed before, often finding small disemployment effects. The difference was that the empirical work was often correlational and therefore not convincing enough to change people's minds about the theory.
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Reminds me of this graph from here on how Samsung and LG were able to quickly relocate production to China and then Thailand in response to US tariffs (and once they'd relocated production, sold more from China to third countries that didn't have tariffs too).
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Love to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable

Had a thought that the Journal of Development Economics' pre-results review would not only have the benefit of increased transparency, but also of helping authors' careers because RCTs take a long time to finish! Apparently the editors had thought of that:
www.povertyactionlab.org/blog/9-5-18/...

By the definitions used there, Rhode Island was unanimous too (though counties don’t mean much in New England, there are no county governments, lots of places will break results down by township instead.)

This is so ridiculous!
Lina Khan 7 years ago: “Amazon’s charging low prices now so they gain a monopoly and charge high prices later”
Lina Khan today: “Amazon’s a monopoly!”
Commentators: “You said their prices were too low and now you’re saying they’re too high! Which is it?!”