[lbo-talk] anti-suburban snobs

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Sep 24 18:39:45 PDT 2004


John Thornton wrote:


>Trotting out "Myths of Rich and Poor" is pretty unconvincing
>evidence for much. This book is full of deliberately misleading
>statistics and lies of omission.

It's one of the sleaziest, most dishonest books I've ever seen. Their chapter on mobility was ripped to shreds by Peter Gottschalk, when it appeared as a "essay" in the Dallas Fed's annual report; they reprinted it unchanged in the book.

Doug



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