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Phillip Tussing's avatar

Jadrian- I hope you don't mind that I sent the letter to my entire department, including Adjuncts. It is so important for students to realize that professional economists are in broad agreement about this problem, though solutions are harder -- that get so much baloney on social media.

On a separate note: if any CEO, at any company, had sent the message that Reagan sent, about his own employees, he would have been out of a job the same day. A part of the job of a CEO is to motivate his employees -- not to tell them they are useless. If he had doubts about their effectiveness, he should shut up and train them, or replace them with better workers. If he thinks the company is doing too much, he should pare it back, or resign if he is unable to do so because he cannot work well with the Board (Congress).

JD Champagne's avatar

"The experts mostly agree" is a phrase with fills me with great trepidation

John Quiggin's avatar

US is trying out the alternative to expertise now, on just about everything, with Trump. How's that going for you?

Jadrian Wooten's avatar

More or less trepidation compared with "I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help."?

JD Champagne's avatar

Two sides of the same coin, mostly

Ken Fabian's avatar

A cheap and easy platitude to disparage expert knowledge? We absolutely need people who actually study things enough to be rated as experts. To a large extent non experts assess the advice of individual experts through their consilience with others studying those things.

Those holding the highest Offices need to refer to and defer to the expert advice they commissioned to study and advise, out of duty of care and due diligence.

John Quiggin's avatar

I'm with the majority on most of this