They Shoot Keynesians Don't They

[Brad De Long]

>O-sters-
>
>Has anyone ever tried to compare the living conditions of an unemployed
>person in a Social Dem, taking into account universal benefits including
>child care, maybe even access to better public transit, to the living
>standards of a low-wage worker in US?
>
>Just trying to gel.
>
>Thanks-Paula

I remember hearing about a Brookings Institution conference in the early
1980s at which an outraged German Right Social Democrat type--Ralf
Dahrendorf, former dean? director? chancellor? rector? head honcho? at the
London School of Economics--stood up and yelled at the Americans who were
focusing on high European unemployment that he "...would much, much rather
be unemployed in Germany than poor in America!"

Brad DeLong