Ben Friedman
Brief Bio: American political economist
Lived: 1944-
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Quotes:
“The stagnation of American middle-class living standards”
I believe that the rising intolerance and incivility and the eroding generosity and openness that have marked important aspects of American society in the recent past have been, in significant part, a consequence of the stagnation of American middle-class living standards.
2005 from the book The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth