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Michael R Strain
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Director of Economic Policy Studies and Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Professor of Practice at Georgetown University. Contributing Columnist for the Financial Times.

Michael R. Strain is an American economist. He is currently the Director of Economic Policy Studies and the Arthur F. Burns Scholar in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute. He is also Professor of Practice in the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University, a research fellow at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics, and a columnist for Project Syndicate. Strain's research focuses on labor economics, macroeconomics, public finance, and social policy. .. more

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I have read a bunch of the replies to @justinwolfers.bsky.social's post, and I want to reaffirm that Justin's argument is deeply correct --- morally, civically, and empirically. Thank you, Justin, for speaking out about this crucially important issue.
The best cure for ideological bias is find someone on the other side and go to lunch with them.⁣
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Sometimes we disagree about facts. Sometimes we disagree about values. Figuring out which is which is fun part. https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/my-libertarian-friends-were-right

I have read a bunch of the replies to @justinwolfers.bsky.social's post, and I want to reaffirm that Justin's argument is deeply correct --- morally, civically, and empirically. Thank you, Justin, for speaking out about this crucially important issue.
The best cure for ideological bias is find someone on the other side and go to lunch with them.⁣
⁣
Sometimes we disagree about facts. Sometimes we disagree about values. Figuring out which is which is fun part. https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/my-libertarian-friends-were-right