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We're interested in starting to try to document the implications of living in the world we do today--where most of the policy recommendations that fall out of our models may not be en acted. Why? And what does that mean for our economy?

i am definitely not speaking from personal experience

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Space for one more?

Anyway, just a few thoughts :) back to sending bad tweets every 3 months~

I understand why people vote the way they do. I do wish turnout was better, but I can't blame individuals who are distrustful of broad statements of economic recovery, given the grocery hauls they have.

(as an aside, try telling PhD students that their raises for stipends mean anything in real terms, given inflation. it hasn't moved anyone I know in the linguistics department)

I don't blame the Dems here. If I'm running an incumbent, I can't say the economy is a failure. But someone else can, and they can implicitly & explicitly promise to keep wages high.

I don't think things are as confusing as we think they are. If my wages haven't risen, can I still keep believing in the promises of liberalism? What if my wages are my only, unstable income?

People pan-ethnically mobilize when they have stable employment -- yet, when they are at risk of losing a job, they are in competition with other ethnic groups in their job class. This seems to be partially confirmed by Autor et al 2020, which relates globalization & pol polarization.

in competition w consumption. I don't think that's the full story. Institutional capture means that identity also distorts prices. Of course, when everyone's winning, that's not a huge deal. But Matsuoka shows a strong relationship between intergroup competition & expected wages.

Sure, there are psychological components of identity too, but communities offer economic protections. Okamoto writes about the emergence of biological essentialism as a way to justify slavery & the pittance paid to asian laborers. Much of our own field treats identity as a good people must choose