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Jonah is joined by Scott Winship – the director of Poverty Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, and fresh off the heels of his position within Senator Mike Lee’s Social Capital Project. Jonah asks Scott about the persistence of poverty in American society, and what progress has been made both recently and over the long term. Then, they get into why some of the obstacles that have to be removed in order to lift poor people up are more intractable than others. In part, Scott thinks that these difficulties “show how we’re hardwired to think about these problems in economic terms rather than in terms of social bonds,” and that certain data may blind us when searching for the real issues.
Show Notes:
-Richard Burkhauser on poverty in the 60s versus now
-Raj Chetty on people doing better than their parents
-Mr. Piketty’s big book of Marxiness
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I really enjoyed this discussion.
I know Jonah almost never replies to comments, but I’d love to hear what he thinks about the rise of economic resentment, to the extent it has risen if it has risen, is related to the spread of knowledge of how other people live. Call it lifestyle resentment maybe.
We live in an age when far more people can be viewed as our own “Jones” than ever before in human history. Part of this perspective is a choice by an individual, part is an outgrowth of technology.