{"id":73632,"date":"2024-01-04T09:41:40","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T09:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=73632"},"modified":"2024-01-04T09:41:40","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T09:41:40","slug":"economists-are-the-blood-letters-of-the-modern-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/01\/04\/economists-are-the-blood-letters-of-the-modern-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Economists are the blood-letters of the modern world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I loved this comment, which was in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theasset.com\/article\/50676\/medieval-inflation-medicine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Asset<\/a> over the new year. It was written by James K Galbraith, who is professor of government at the University of Texas:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-73633\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-2024-01-04-at-09.36.24-550x319.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-2024-01-04-at-09.36.24-550x319.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-2024-01-04-at-09.36.24-518x300.png 518w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-2024-01-04-at-09.36.24-768x445.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-2024-01-04-at-09.36.24-600x348.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-2024-01-04-at-09.36.24.png 1170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I think that is a very accurate and astute observation.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Hat tip for spotting this to Robin Stafford.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I loved this comment, which was in The Asset over the new year. It was written by James K Galbraith, who is professor of government<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/01\/04\/economists-are-the-blood-letters-of-the-modern-world\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73634,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73632\/revisions\/73634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}