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economix.blogs.nytimes.com - 1/22/2009

The Case for Small-Government Egalitarianism - Economix Blog

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Edward L. Glaeser is an economist at Harvard. The stimulus debate badly needs the voices of that now-rare breed: Andrew Jackson’s intellectual descendant, the small-government egalitarian. Today, Franklin Roosevelt’s heirs — big-government liberals eager to right the wrongs of the world by ...

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yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 1/26/2009

Small-Government Egalitarianism

— yglesias.thinkprogress.org — Ed Glaeser has an interesting post on what he terms “the case for small-government egalitarianism” which goes... off into a stimulus detour, but which is more interesting on more enduring issues . He observes that “Political divisions ... (more) Small-Government Egalitarianism

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rossdouthat.theatlantic.com - 1/22/2009

Small-Government Egalitarianism?

— rossdouthat.theatlantic.com — Speaking of week-old blog posts, here's a provocative argument from Edward Glaeser - one that foreshadows, I... suspect, some interesting intra-conservative debates to come. (more) Small-Government Egalitarianism?

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Small-Government Egalitarianism?
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Small-Government Egalitarianism
Matthew Yglesias — ... Ed Glaeser has an interesting post on what he terms “the case for small-government egalitarianism” which goes off into a stimulus detour, but which is more interesting on more enduring issues. He observes that “Political divisions have not always pitted big-government egalitarians against small-government conservatives” but today things are different, and not necessarily for good reasons: ...

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Small-Government Egalitarianism:
The Volokh Conspiracy — Harvard economist Edward Glaeser has a nice piece on what he calls "small-government egalitarianism." I don't agree with all of his specific points, but I do agree with the general theme that an underemphasized aspect of the case for limiting government is the tendency of big government to benefit the politically powerful at the expense of the poor and disadvantaged. This issue has been a theme of much of my own work on property rights (e.g. ...

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