[lbo-talk] Reps losing business class (sorry for last post)

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Oct 3 07:49:12 PDT 2007


On Oct 3, 2007, at 10:17 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:


> Doug:
>
> I never know what to make of these claims. The Dems often really
> suck, but 1) they've always been good imperialists, and 2) though the
> New Deal and Great Society are long dead, there are still big
> differences between D and R on labor law, minimum wage, tax policy,
> and health care. Look at the current fight over expanding the Child
> Health program - Ds for, Rs against. As I keep saying, to no apparent
> effect, the differences between the two parties are wider now than
> they were in the 1950s and early 1960s. It's a mathematical fact.
>
>
> [WS:] Not according to Hotelling's law:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotelling's_law
>
> In essence the law should apply regardless to the number of vendors or
> parties involved - three or four party solution would yield a
> similar trend
> toward the center.

You answer an empirical observation from the world of politics with a theory from the world of economics?



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