Who exactly is this guy? He seems to be a mini celebrity among reg monkeys (macro guy here). He's followed by countless people on twitter and many "serious" academic economists comment and retweet the garbage this guy posts.
Who is Marshall Steinbaum?
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Marshall Steinbaum is a Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, where he researches market power and inequality. He works on tax policy, antitrust and competition policy, and the labor market. He is a co-editor of After Piketty: The Agenda for Economics and Inequality, and his work has appeared in Democracy, Boston Review, Jacobin, the Journal of Economic Literature, the Industrial and Labor Relations Review, and ProMarket. Steinbaum earned a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago.
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Fairly dimwitted Chicago PhD who totally failed in econ academia but has extremely strident left-wing beliefs and enjoys being an obnoxious personality on Twitter. Knows just enough to be dangerous, but literally zero more than that. About to become an AP at a heterodox program (Utah) because that's how they roll.
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He has correctly figured out that abolishing private property is the only just economic system where prosperity can be shared by all. Since rich capitalists stand in the way of progress, drastic measures are justified. Anyone who disagrees with any of this, like pretty much every economist, is a paid shill for the corporations.
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Who exactly is this guy? He seems to be a mini celebrity among reg monkeys (macro guy here). He's followed by countless people on twitter and many "serious" academic economists comment and retweet the garbage this guy posts.
What depresses me is how spouting ridiculous nonsense generates publicity and discussion from prominent, seemingly serious people.
Why do we spend so much time discussing crank people and crank ideas?
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Just another very online very left white bro.
As if we needed more of those. They barely reflect the views of most democrats much less Americans as a whole
He seems to think posting like a jackass is what will get far left economic views acceptedWhite. Who are you kidding?
Was that a micro-aggression for you?