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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (246371)3/4/2014 12:00:21 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 542196
 
No, John. By in large what I am saying is that current government social policy helps to keep people poor who are already poor. That's my take on it from what I know and I'm not saying that I'm on expert on it.

The only serious evidence that would substantiate that claim would be showing the government is doing far too little as, for instance, in the case of doing something about the current state of urban and rural education. If your argument is, as I assume it is, to cut benefits as a way to provide incentive, I've seen nothing that indicates that works on an aggregate level; only increases suffering at that level.

By the way did you catch James Surowiecki's article in "The New yorker" last week on "The Mobility Myth?"

Nope, thanks for the link. I'm not in a position to comment, at least seriously, on that argument. I do know that almost all the stuff I've read makes a very strong case for increasing income inequality. And we all can see quite clearly how our politics is becoming hostage to the big money types.

My discipline, sociology, had an extensive literature on social mobility the last time I read it seriously. It was one of the central elements of macro level work. I haven't kept up with it much in retirement but I would expect the contemporary work from those scholars to differ from that of economists.
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