An ethical morass
https://portside.org/2017-12-18/ethical-morass
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Author: Economist Paul Krugman
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New York Times
'Alec MacGillis reports on the lavish rewards for college students participating in It’s Up To Us, yet another tentacle of the deficit-scold octopus, this time mobilizing the young. If you read the front organization’s site, it seems to imply that universities — not just individual student organizations — are involved, and my understanding is that it looks that way at some of the schools too; in effect, political advocacy is being masked as general public service, because of course promoting Simpson-Bowles is the patriotic thing to do, right?
'Austerity mania, it turns out, isn’t just a disaster on intellectual and policy grounds; it has also turned into an ethical morass.'