An unquestioned consensus in this election is that 'the establishment' is cancerously sick. But I can't find any meaningful measure of this
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... and by establishment I don't mean the GOP, but the general apparatus of state/governance in the US (as opposed to say EU, China)
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By almost any measure, EU and China (only meaningful comparables) are far more rotten to the core than the US. So unclear what people mean
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Roughly similar size political entity with comparable level of development
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Yes. The EU just considers a lot of its rottenness legit parts of state. I call it unsustainable corporatism.
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No. I'm saying the US is better than both EU and China. Said nothing about EU vs. China.
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This fits the theory of inspection as ritual etc. right? From that paper?
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I see you're faculty at Cornell. Clearly you're used to having $$$ to research your hypotheses :D
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Ah I was there around the same time postdoccing in mech/aero...
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Edmund Phelps' Mass Flourishing has some really good data on the metrics I consider important.
