George Rebane
A lot of the ideological dust ups, both locally and nationally, involve understanding and interpreting some pretty fundamental economic factors. Zeljka Buturovic and Daniel B. Klein published research (‘Economic Enlightenment in Relation to College-going, Ideology, and Other Variables: A Zogby Survey’) of Americans based on a survey of over four thousand American adults on their beliefs about such economic factors. The results can be downloaded from here, and are remarkable in that they pretty much follow the plausible path for those leaning to the right. The work also explains the lack of correlation between economic enlightenment and college education. It is one that most well-read people already suspect, and those of us who have taught at the university level have directly experienced with our colleagues of the professoriate. The paper is neither long nor complex, and a pretty quick read with references for digging deeper. I can already hear the howls.
Oh yes, and here’s this week’s little contribution to curing insomnia. Big pharma shudders.
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