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Shawn Fremstad
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law, policy, and political economy born in Fargo
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Great piece in The Society Pages by Paula Fomby that pushes back against the simplistic notion that marriage is the cure-all for disparities in adult and child well-being.

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Joe Lieberman is the reason we don’t have a public option and that should lead his obituaries but I’m guessing it won’t

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ASA statement of support for Christina Cross. "These false claims of plagiarism are a political attack that exploits the gap between the normal scientific process and the public’s understanding of that process." www.asanet.org/wp-content/u...

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Angus Deaton reads @epopppp.bsky.social. From *Economics in America* (2023), p. 234.

"That we have lost our focus on liberty and justice at the expense of efficiency has also been eloquently argued and meticulously documented by the sociologist Elizabeth Popp Berman, who mourns the sidelining of other philosophical approaches to public policy. Popp Berman’s book is persuasive, and I find it useful to divide mainstream economists into two broad groups. I label the first group “conservative economists”; they are concerned with efficiency and believe in the power of markets to promote it, and are concerned that attempts to interfere with the market will compromise current or future prosperity. These conservatives recognize the legitimacy of calls to do something about poverty. The second group I label “progressive economists”; they too are concerned with efficiency and they, too, believe in the power of markets to promote it and are concerned that attempts to interfere with the market will compromise current or future prosperity. They also care about poverty...
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"That Direct File exists at all is shocking. That it’s pretty good is borderline miraculous...it’s a glimpse of a world where government tech benefits millions of Americans." www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

The IRS Finally Has an Answer to TurboTax
The IRS Finally Has an Answer to TurboTax

Against all odds, the government has created an actually good piece of technology.

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Shawn Fremstad
@shawnfremstad.bsky.social
law, policy, and political economy born in Fargo
162 followers106 following71 posts