Michael R. Strain
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Michael R. Strain
@MichaelRStrain
Director of Economic Policy Studies and Senior Fellow at @AEI. Professor of Practice at @Georgetown. Contributing Columnist for the @FT.
Washington, D.C. Katılım Temmuz 2012
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Discussing affordability, inflation, and tariffs: @MichaelRStrain on 'Let People Prosper with Vance Ginn'
Thank you for sharing, @AEI! aei.org/press/discussi…
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We discussed whether a degree matters in this environment. Many weren't sure it prepared them, but also felt like without a credential (as well as experience) you had no real shot at a job.
The job search process was frequently described as impersonal, grueling, draining.
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Our latest @nytopinion focus group of Gen Z entry level white collar job seekers dives deep on the feeling that "there's no such thing as an entry level job anymore", the economic and emotional effect of job hunting today, and how AI is upending the search and job market.
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A terrific discussion.
Vance Ginn@VanceGinn
Affordability is the defining economic issue today—and most policymakers are getting it wrong. I sat down with economist @MichaelRStrain of @AEI to break down: • Why costs—not wages—are the real problem • Why tariffs don’t deliver jobs • What a pro-growth path forward looks like Read/listen here: vanceginn.substack.com/p/the-affordab…
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I would humbly suggest that you rethink your view on this issue, yes! Japan is one of our most important allies, and presidents of both parties have for decades worked to strengthen our relationship following WWII. At Pearl Harbor, over two-thousand Americans died and the Pacific Fleet was badly damaged. For the president to make a joke out of this in front of Japan's head of government works against a major goal of US foreign policy for the past seven decades. Also, Pearl Harbor is widely viewed as a cowardly sneak attack. So I do not understand why the president thinks it is reasonable to compare our actions in Iran to Pearl Harbor.
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@MichaelRStrain @JerusalemDemsas In some cases, the disagreement is more or less open. For example, I see many more academics than business leaders touting the merits of worker-owned cooperatives.
Startup founders are often attempt to IPO and give equity-holding early employees the opportunity to "exit."
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"roughly 90 percent of politically relevant social science articles leaned left 1960–2024"
1. The lack of viewpoint diversity affects the questions that are being asked. Conservatives who are scholars sometimes ask different questions than progressives who are scholars!
2. The lack of viewpoint diversity obviously affects the answers that are given to a given question.
3. There is no conspiracy: Human beings naturally give less scrutiny to answers that conform to their prior views. This natural human tendency reinforces (at least on the margin) the dominance of progressive views in peer-reviewed journals.
4. This is such an obvious and major problem that is of first-order relevance to the central mission of universities. It is astonishing to me that the dominant view of faculty at elite universities is that the absence of scholars with conservative views is either desirable or not a big deal.
Eric Kaufmann@epkaufm
Massive big data analysis of academic abstracts shows steady shift to the cultural left since early 90s with virtually no conservative output. Also growing ideological conformity with viewpoint diversity almost gone. Paper👇
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Check out my latest ramblings:
Graduate Loan Caps Are Coming: Colleges Should Prepare Now, by @DrBethAkers open.substack.com/pub/bethakers/…
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It's tiresome to have to keep saying that he shames his office, but he shames his office.
Kaitlan Collins@kaitlancollins
Asked why he didn't coordinate with allies before going to war with Iran, Trump says, "We didn't tell anyone about it. Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor, OK?"
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An amazing full body reaction from the Japanese Prime Minister
CSPAN@cspan
Q: "Why didn't you tell U.S. allies…about the war before attacking Iran?" President Trump: "We wanted surprise. Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?"
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@AlanMCole @JerusalemDemsas I agree with that. But it's hard to think of issues where academia's politics do not mirror Hollywood, elite journalism, elite business, etc.
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@MichaelRStrain @JerusalemDemsas When academia's politics mirror what you'd find at Google or a yacht club or JP Morgan, it's "smart people agree with us."
But when academia promotes ideas that look different from those places, it's "we're an important critique of power."
Heads I win, tails you lose.
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It was great talking with @VanceGinn on his excellent podcast.
Vance Ginn@VanceGinn
Affordability is crushing American families. It’s not wages—it’s rising costs: 🏠 Housing 🏥 Healthcare 👶 Childcare @MichaelRStrain of @AEI argues that too many policymakers are focused on the wrong solutions. Tariffs, subsidies, and slogans won’t fix it. We need policies that expand supply, lower barriers, and actually let people prosper. Do y miss the latest episode. 🔗👇
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@MichaelRStrain That's the quote. I don't know what to tell you.
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Senior staff who were not “paranoid about being AI-first” would probably be replaced by others more comfortable with the changing technology. “I don’t think anyone gets a free pass here. Anyone.”
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Well, one reason this happens is that people don't like being around other people with whom they have deep moral disagreements.
Michael R. Strain@MichaelRStrain
"roughly 90 percent of politically relevant social science articles leaned left 1960–2024" 1. The lack of viewpoint diversity affects the questions that are being asked. Conservatives who are scholars sometimes ask different questions than progressives who are scholars! 2. The lack of viewpoint diversity obviously affects the answers that are given to a given question. 3. There is no conspiracy: Human beings naturally give less scrutiny to answers that conform to their prior views. This natural human tendency reinforces (at least on the margin) the dominance of progressive views in peer-reviewed journals. 4. This is such an obvious and major problem that is of first-order relevance to the central mission of universities. It is astonishing to me that the dominant view of faculty at elite universities is that the absence of scholars with conservative views is either desirable or not a big deal.
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@MichaelRStrain Unfortunately, once you skew all the way towards one set of moral committments you probably start selecting on people who are especially keen on those particular moral committments.
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@asymmetricinfo You would think scholars would be among the most open-minded people. But if the point of scholarship is to advance advocacy and not to build knowledge, then open-mindedness becomes a vice, not a virtue.
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@asymmetricinfo Definitely true for the typical person. But not true of me! And presumably not true of the people who we should hope would be choosing to enter a profession whose job description is to build up the stock of human knowledge through civil debate.
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