{"id":10233,"date":"2010-02-26T17:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T17:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/romer-and-summers-should-resign-in-protest\/"},"modified":"2010-02-26T17:21:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T17:21:00","slug":"romer-and-summers-should-resign-in-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarianism\/romer-and-summers-should-resign-in-protest.php","title":{"rendered":"Romer and Summers Should Resign in Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to today's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/26\/business\/26procure.html?ref=us\">New York Times<\/a>,<\/p><blockquote><p>The Obama administration is planning to use the government&rsquo;s enormous buying power to prod private companies to improve wages and benefits for millions of workers, according to White House officials and several interest groups briefed on the plan.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>This kind of intervention cannot possibly be beneficial; it is an excuse for redistribution to organized labor and politically connected businesses.&nbsp; It is hard to imagine a worse idea.<\/p><p>See also Alex Tabarrok's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2010\/02\/insiders-outsiders-and-unemployment.html\">excellent critique<\/a> at Marginal Revolution.<\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/5c994_6379328854053402400-1247036236494631743?l=jeffreymiron.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to today's New York Times,The Obama administration is planning to use the government&rsquo;s enormous buying power to prod private companies to improve wages and benefits for millions of workers, according to White House officials and several interest groups briefed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarianism\/romer-and-summers-should-resign-in-protest.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarianism"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}