> Enrique Diaz-Alvarez wrote:
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> >What drives the pendulum to the right is that rightwing policies *work*.
How do you explain the success of European social democracy's "left" policies? Faster per capita growth than the US over any meaningful period of time since WWII?
That's what I meant by misinformation: mindlessly repeating the propaganda that the US economy has been "stronger" or "more efficient" than the European economy since the Reagan. One expects better from a Nobel prize.
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