I very genuinely can’t wrap my mind around the concept that there was a time when the average CEO only out-earned the average worker by a multiple of 40. I keep hearing that it was true, and I can even look through the data, but the prevailing cultural deification of CEOs that’s been prominent my […]
Ezra Klein
Ezra Klein is a former Prospect writer and current editor-in-chief at Vox. His work has appeared in the LA Times, The Guardian, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, Slate, and The Columbia Journalism Review. He’s been a commentator on MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and more.
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Swords With Two Edges
Interesting piece in The Wall Street Journal about the double-edged sword 9/11 has been for actors of Middle-Eastern descent. Over the last few years, demand for such actors has exploded, and the parts have become more significant and substantive — but they’ve all been for terrorists. Many of the actors would rather avoid being typecast […]
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ONE MORE ON…
ONE MORE ON WELFARE STATE VARIANCE. This’ll be the last post on the European welfare state’s development unless, you know, I end up writing another post on it (I find this stuff unaccountably interesting). In any case, a Crooked Timber reader pointed me towards this paper on the subject by Alberto Alesina, Edward Glaeser and […]
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CEO PAY VS….
CEO PAY VS. WORKER PAY. Over at the Consumerist, there’s a really good graph comparing the growth in CEO pay, corporate profits, and worker’s compensation. It’s one of those pictures tell a thousand word type things. It reminds me, though, of a question I’ve long had: How much money actually goes into CEO pay in […]
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SOCIAL POLICY IN…
SOCIAL POLICY IN EUROPE AND AMERICA. At the risk of beating a dead horse, I’m finding Jonah‘s post on welfare states an almost endlessly rich source of material and fascination. His response to Jonathan Cohn‘s article on the superiority of the French system doesn’t try and rebut any of Cohn’s points, but instead lapses into […]
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Why Are We Here?
A commenter takes issue with Jonah’s historical contention that Americans reject generous social welfare states because we’re a country comprised of refugees from monarchies who hate expansive safety nets: Does this kid know ANYTHING about American immigration patterns? I find it especially laughable to think the potato famine Irish immigrants were fleeing a welfare state […]
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The Worldwide Wage Gap
Maybe I should cease being shocked by this sort of thing, but new data out of UNICEF shows that the gender gap in wages isn’t much smaller in American than it is in the developing world. We should be so proud. Indeed, what’s remarkable about the wage gap is how near-constant it is across the […]
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Quote Capturing
In recent weeks, my discovery of ClipMarks has completely changed how I read online. ClipMarks is a free service that lets you save, tag, and archive particular quotes of articles. It’s creating, for me, a categorized, easily searchable catalogue of not only the pieces that seem interesting, but the most salient, useable facts within them. […]
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Throne-Kissers
I’ve spent a bit of time this morning puzzling over the meaning of a pretty opaque Jonah Goldberg post. It’s my Tuesday timewaster! In it, he responds to Jon Cohn’s smart article on the successes of the French health care system and my warning that the size of government isn’t particularly determinative of economic growth […]