“I don't think it's young people sitting around thinking about what economic models are most beneficial to society at large, or reading Plato's Republic and pondering economic theory
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“In many ways the argument of my book is not very groundbreaking if you talk to practitioners, but it hasn’t been empirically documented in the ways that I did. Some other people in political science call attention to endorsements. The other theory is that money matters not as a signal of viability but for material goods — so to buy advertisements, office infrastructure, hiring staff, and consultants.
“They may be thinking it's a radical way to shake things up, shake up the status quo — a way to give things to the working class, an anti-establishment thing, more than the clear workings of socialism.
“I don't think running ... as a generational change candidate and basically saying, 'I'm young, but I want more of the status quo,' is not a winning message, obviously.
“We have a generation of younger people who are fed up
“'sick of the status quo' cuts across ideological lines
“Jolly countered that Donalds is ignoring pressing economic issues.
“Economists, whether they are on the right or on the left, essentially are in universal agreement, that when the government implements price controls in the rental market, you end up with housing shortages,