A New Kind of Economy—An Interview with Andrew Yang
His campaign focuses on solving the problem of job losses to automation—an issue many politicians seem happy to ignore.
Peter Clarke
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His campaign focuses on solving the problem of job losses to automation—an issue many politicians seem happy to ignore.
“Rising inequality” has become a catch-all explanation with which politicians, journalists, and intellectuals can wave away the actual concerns of “populists,” with abstract talk about the “underlying economic causes” — few if any of which stand up to scrutiny.
There is good reason for the controversy. Early in the book, Reeves lays out the inconvenient truth: