Book review: “Power and Progress” – by Noah Smith.

The problem with this is that most of the reviewed book consists of distortions and lies — but so do most of Noah Smith’s claims. He’s an economist. His entire field is built on lying to people about their own lives and about how prosperity functions. In many important ways, promulgating those deceptions is why the field of economics exists at all.

It’s important to remember that when reading anything penned by an econ.

Notice that Noah’s whole shtick is to claim against all evidence — and often using completely bogus “evidence” — that workers have never had it better, housing is actually cheap, wages have kept pace with productivity, etc. And then you look at the real world and realize this is heinous clown-level shit that is obviously false.

The entire field of economics should be dissolved and rebuilt from scratch.