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Democracy counts: On sacred and debased numbers
Democracy depends on numbers. This was recognized from the founding of the American republic. The US Constitution defined terms for periodic elections and for the reapportionment of representatives among the states as their populations grew.
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Zach Griffen
Ted Porter on the census, COVID-19, and counting votes.
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Ambivalent economizations: the case of value added modeling in teacher evaluation
Research on economization processes is increasingly taking seriously the social and material processes through which various policy domains are transformed into economic problems and solutions. This article engages “Value Added Modeling” (VAM) in...
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Zach Griffen
My Theory and Society paper with Aaron Panofsky, "Ambivalent Economizations: The Case of Value Added Modeling in Teacher Evaluation," is now available online
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Why Student Loans Are Actually a Good Thing | RealClearEducation
The evidence on educational loans, however, is telling us something different - that the use of student loans helps students earn a degree and pay down their debt and that some students would...
If Life Feels Bleak, It’s Because Our Civilization is Beginning to Collapse
2030 Will Be Even Worse than 2020. And 2040 Will Be Even Worse than That. Unless.
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Zach Griffen
@epopppp I was trying to figure out why I’ve gotten so little done today and decided that reading this first thing in the morning didn’t help
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Illiberalism Isn’t to Blame for the Death of Good-Faith Debate
Bad faith is the condition of the modern internet.
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Zach Griffen
“Look: A professional Twitter troll is president. Trolling won. Perhaps it’s time to acknowledge that despite their centrality, online platforms aren’t suited to the earnest exchange of big ideas.”
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Doctors' Orders | Columbia University Press
The United States does not have enough doctors. Every year since the 1950s, internationally trained and osteopathic medical graduates have been needed to fil... | CUP
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Zach Griffen
@wendyliy Lots of ethnographies of medicine but a really excellent recent one is Doctors’ Orders by @TaniaMJenkins
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Op-Ed: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Don't understand the protests? What you're seeing is people pushed to the edge
The main concern of black people right now isn’t whether they’re standing three or six feet apart, but whether their sons, husbands, brothers and fathers will be murdered by cops.
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Zach Griffen
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was a UCLA history major and he continues to be extremely awesome
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testing amid turmoil
The following is a guest post by Zach Griffen. A specter is haunting the U.S. education system—the specter of not being able to carry out the routine administration of standardized tests. While wri…
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Zach Griffen
Important to note that the UC system is likely not "getting rid of standardized tests." Other options are being considered, including a proprietary UC test and an existing CA state test. I wrote about this and other standardized testing stuff last week
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VAM on trial: judging science in teacher evaluation lawsuits
(2020). VAM on trial: judging science in teacher evaluation lawsuits. Journal of Cultural Economy. Ahead of Print.
Pete Buttigieg is missing support from another key Democratic group: Unions
Why haven't any labor unions endorsed Pete Buttigieg's campaign for president? They're backing Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden instead.
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Zach Griffen
Worth noting that in addition to having very little support from non-white voters, Mayor Pete hasn't been endorsed by a single labor union
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Across California, Iranian Americans are shocked, alarmed or relieved at the killing of Qassem Suleimani
In California, Persians are shocked, alarmed or relieved at the U.S. assassination of Iranian Gen. Qassem Suleimani.
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Zach Griffen
The main interview subject in this story runs a wonderful store two blocks from my apartment. That he even needs to be asked about global geopolitical strategy fucking sucks
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Amazon.com: The Crisis of Expertise (9780745665788): Gil Eyal: Books
Amazon.com: The Crisis of Expertise (9780745665788): Gil Eyal: Books
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Zach Griffen
Gil Eyal's new book, The Crisis of Expertise, is out today. Gil's mentoring and influence has been essential to creating a network of sociologists interested in studying expertise...I guess we'll spend the next decade making sense of the crisis!
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RANDomizing the Cost of Healthcare: Economics, ‘Health Status,’ and U.S. Federal Policy
For a half century, economic research on health insurance in the U.S. has centered on the importance of ‘cost sharing,’ or the idea that individuals ought to shoulder some of the cost of their insurance. First theorized as a ‘moral hazard’ problem...
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Zach Griffen
If you're at 4S, come hear me talk about my favorite topic tomorrow: the RAND Health Insurance Experiment
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Obamacare still lives, but Trump’s rule on HRAs may remake health insurance in U.S.
A rule letting employers subsidize workers buying health plans on the individual market may have similar impact to the shift of retirement benefits to 401(k)s.
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Zach Griffen
Long term consequences of what the Trump administration is using its executive power to do with healthcare "could resemble the movement in retirement benefits from defined pensions to 401(k) plans"
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Chinese family paid admission scandal’s mastermind $6.5 million for a spot at Stanford, sources say
The family of Yusi Zhao paid the college admissions scandal's mastermind $6.5 million, sources said.
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Zach Griffen
In the good old days this family could have just bribed the school directly and funded Stanford University Press for four years
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The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming: David Wallace-Wells: 9780525576709: Amazon.com: Books
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming [David Wallace-Wells] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. <b> The Uninhabitable Earth</i> hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon....
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Zach Griffen
"[4 degrees of warming by 2100] ultimately suggests a more complete retreat from economics as an orienting beacon, and from growth as the lingua franca through which modern life launders all of its aspirations."
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The Young Left’s Anti-Capitalist Manifesto
A few months ago a friend wrote me an email with the subject line, “What is Sean McElwee.” This is the kind of question that occurs to a person who spends a lot…
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Zach Griffen
This whole piece is great but I particularly liked this quote from Krugman:
“If you’re having meetings in which Joe Stiglitz and I are the farthest left voices, that’s a limiting spectrum and it would be helpful if there were people beyond.”
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T-Mobile CEO, execs stay at Trump hotel while lobbying Trump administration
Stays come as T-Mobile seeks approval to buy Sprint.
To Remake the World: Slavery, Racial Capitalism, and Justice
What if we use the history of slavery as a standpoint from which to rethink our notion of justice today?
Airline Consolidation, Merger Retrospectives, and Oil Price Pass-Through - Roosevelt Institute
Following decades of lax antitrust enforcement, the airline sector today suffers from a market power problem. Fewer firms means there is less competition, which is great for corporate profits but bad for consumers and other stakeholders. In “Airline...
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Zach Griffen
Fun read from @Econ_Marshall as I get ready to embark on a month-long trip to six different cities
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