…planted in the media, including the myth that Obamacare is “unaffordable.” In truth, last year, after using his tax credit,  the average Exchange customer paid $82 a month for coverage….

…toxic variation on the myth of meritocracy that ultimately treats human labor as merely an input to production and eschews any concept of human dignity or the value of honest…

…of the European Union, in terms of both trade access and transfers, is hard to understate. Unfortunately, as Shaxson writes, true believers in the low tax myth, and the architects…

…GMU. The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies It just seems to me that Right economic and political theory seems to hold two contradictory ideas at…

…have prevented the Phillips curve error which, in fact, is almost entirely a myth. The standard case for assuming rational expectations has no merits. I can’t resist noting that Wren-Lewis…

…license of the African that needs no proof, can never really, in discourse, be proved. To state it plainly, the lump-of-labor fallacy myth is colonial discourse in which the worker…

…titled “Elizabeth Warren: Trump didn’t invent the ‘rigged election’ myth. Republicans did.” The second Friedman excerpt also was not indented here originally. All is now corrected. 10/20 at 2:12 p.m….

…Concept of History, 1940 Back in December, I posted Full Employment and the Myth of the General Strike to start the conversational ball rolling about the idea of a general…

…in the US that there’s no escaping it as a motivator for most people. But I take to heart the interpretation of the Pandora’s Box myth that Hope being at…

…hardest on family-owned farms and small businesses.” and Young called the repeal being a massive giveaway: “a ‘myth,’ that the repeal of the estate tax would be a massive giveaway…