Ep. 83 Why All the Talk About Manufacturing? Don’t All Jobs Matter?

21 April 2017     |     Tom Woods     |     22

Krugman (correctly) wonders about all the emphasis on manufacturing employment, when many other perfectly honorable lines of work have also witnessed declines. Why the emphasis on manufacturing? Why, because white people tend to hold those jobs, says Krugman. What a surprise….

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Why Don’t All Jobs Matter?” (April 17, 2017)

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