Comments on: You have good policy, good ideas, good growth all mutually supporting each other https://www.isegoria.net/2018/05/you-have-good-policy-good-ideas-good-growth-all-mutually-supporting-each-other/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:05:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Rollory https://www.isegoria.net/2018/05/you-have-good-policy-good-ideas-good-growth-all-mutually-supporting-each-other/comment-page-1/#comment-2631919 Rollory Wed, 23 May 2018 17:18:15 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=43478#comment-2631919 ” it seems like people are getting very angry and very populist when it’s hard to even find what the supposed cause of it is”

We got us a comedian here!

]]> By: Graham https://www.isegoria.net/2018/05/you-have-good-policy-good-ideas-good-growth-all-mutually-supporting-each-other/comment-page-1/#comment-2631912 Graham Wed, 23 May 2018 13:16:07 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=43478#comment-2631912 No criticism necessarily more than implied. But Caplan is always challenging for me, never more so than when framing things in terms of some sort of fuzzy set of things called “ideas”. In terms of growth, I always think of that as a near-synonym for “innovation”, which is common enough in recent decades but not nearly enough to form part of a stable, ever positive feedback loop available to any and every country. Otherwise, I’m not sure what “ideas” really means here.

That and the last line of the quote. I can assume he is making an economic point, but I’m hard pressed to take that expression of confusion seriously.

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