In defense of Nader

Brad De Long delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU
Fri Jan 21 13:34:17 PST 2000



>Brad De Long wrote:
>
>>>I think that the attack on Ralph Nader is ill-founded. Nader has worked
>>>on an incredible array of issues, ranging from automobile safety,
>>>medical and pharmaceutical malpractice, trade issues, etc.
>>
>>
>>According to Andrew Tobias, Nader's people are really far on the
>>wrong side on auto insurance issues...
>
>What's the right side, and why is Ralph wrong?
>
>Doug

Let me dig for the Tobias book...

Brad DeLong --

-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- "Now 'in the long run' this [way of summarizing the quantity theory of money] is probably true.... But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. **In the long run** we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again."

--J.M. Keynes -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- J. Bradford De Long; Professor of Economics, U.C. Berkeley; Co-Editor, Journal of Economic Perspectives. Dept. of Economics, U.C. Berkeley, #3880 Berkeley, CA 94720-3880 (510) 643-4027; (925) 283-2709 phones (510) 642-6615; (925) 283-3897 faxes http://econ161.berkeley.edu/ <delong at econ.berkeley.edu>



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