A presidential campaign is the health of economic illiteracy. Every four years, ignorance comes into its quadrennial own. There are voters to mobilize, resentments to stoke, dull gray truths to be replaced by shiny new shibboleths, and the gullible 99 percent to be fired up against the evil 1 percent.

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Headline: Econ 101: Change happens
Publication: Perspective, Pages 73 on 02/05/2012

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Thursday, May 24, 2012, 4:25 p.m.

Econ 101: Change happens

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