Tom VanHeuvelen
@tvanheuvelen.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota
My blog: https://asocial.substack.com/
My blog: https://asocial.substack.com/
I tend to find "current sentiment" to be a little more helpful than "consumer expectations." The latter tends to have massive partisan swings. Current Sentiment looks ... really bad.
Expectations about as low as the mid 1970s and early 1980s.
Expectations about as low as the mid 1970s and early 1980s.
November 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I tend to find "current sentiment" to be a little more helpful than "consumer expectations." The latter tends to have massive partisan swings. Current Sentiment looks ... really bad.
Expectations about as low as the mid 1970s and early 1980s.
Expectations about as low as the mid 1970s and early 1980s.
I don’t buy Kenworthy’s book hook line and sinker, but it is leading me to seriously consider dropping literally everything else for the next decade to figure out whether / how inequality matters.
November 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I don’t buy Kenworthy’s book hook line and sinker, but it is leading me to seriously consider dropping literally everything else for the next decade to figure out whether / how inequality matters.
This report makes sense. But just imagine if they had published 8 reports, each with a single bullet point! They would have been so much more productive!
November 7, 2025 at 12:43 PM
This report makes sense. But just imagine if they had published 8 reports, each with a single bullet point! They would have been so much more productive!
Well, that is _super_ interesting. Great work, yet again!
October 13, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Well, that is _super_ interesting. Great work, yet again!
Roshan's one of, if not the, best sociologist studying global inequality these days.
September 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Roshan's one of, if not the, best sociologist studying global inequality these days.