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> "cost disease" has become politicized Citation needed. Where is this term common and where is it broadly discussed?
by _bpo 10y ago
> "cost disease" has become politicized
Citation needed. Where is this term common and where is it broadly discussed?
- lend000 10y agoIt's not; I've never heard of the term before the article. I'm referring to the phenomenon itself. For example, Elizabeth Warren was recently quoted as measuring success in dollars spent: http://reason.com/blog/2017/01/19/on-entitlements-elizabeth-warren-says-th http://reason.com/blog/2017/01/19/on-entitlements-elizabeth-...
- _bpo 10y ago"Entitlement programs" is politicized as a term, certainly. "Cost disease", though... possibly in search for a new keyword? > I'm referring to the phenomenon itself. From your example, Elizabeth Warren and Tom Price are looking at the same appearances (phenomena) and deriving different "noumena".
- _bpo 10y agoLots of downvotes here – any explanation? The GP uses the phrase "the phenomenon itself" referring to the Kantian term "Ding an sich", which (as applied to phenomena) is just a logical error...
- lend000 10y agoI have nothing against being the guy who spends time pointing out small, or even irrelevant errors, but there is no error to correct. I think this is just a misinterpretation on your part, either stemming from not reading the article to understand what the author described as 'cost disease,' or perhaps you did not understand my use of quotation marks around cost disease in my original post.
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- SilasX 10y agoI don't understand the hate for "entitlement programs"; it's a precise, common, useful category with no better suggestion offered.
- metaphorm 10y agocitation: https://web.archive.org/web/20110724151936/http://publishing.eur.nl/ir/repub/asset/782/TOWSE%20EBOOK_pages0103-0113.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20110724151936/http://publishing... it's been a heavily discussed subject amongst economists. it has not fully passed into mainstream conversation. I'm not an economist but I first encountered the term about 10 years ago while reading economists.