Did we read the same article? The one I read is about changing how economics is taught by treating it more like a data-driven empirical science.
Anybody skilled enough can take a sample of data and play with it enough - fill in holes with other data - exclude some points - until they get the story they want. To some extent there needs to be a mechanism (beside "people are stupid") to tie things together. And this has been the general MO of left-wing economists. They lost ideas and theory so they moved to numbers. The numbers tend to not be predictive because they are so overly played with, so obviously everybody is just being irrational - the world is wrong not their theory because they proved it right with the data.
It is Vox after all - a self proclaimed socialist website that has given page space to the the Jacobins on how Democratic Socialism isn't social democracy - it is only a starting point for pure socialism.
Klein literally says "I'm a socialist" or "I write for a socialist magazine" (Jacobin). Yglesias is also part of that Jacobin group. They aren't social democracy supporters, but explicitly democratic socialists.
I'm pretty well read on my socialists and anarchists, because I used to be one (I worked in am opposition campaign against the democratic Berkeley mayor because she wasn't liberal enough when I was in college).
> Klein literally says "I'm a socialist" or "I write for a socialist magazine" (Jacobin).
If you're referring to https://m.facebook.com/ezraklein/posts/10156608843688410, he's quoting Meagan Day.
> Yglesias is also part of that Jacobin group.
In what way? He has never even written an article for Jacobin. The closest thing is a Jacobin article interviewing him and other pundits for some analysis of the Democratic primaries.
The second quote was to that, not the first. He seems to quote it though as self descriptive.
Ive been reading yglesias and Klein since before dailykos started and they had a name.
And ygeslesias has beam interviewed by them, sat on panels with them, written in other places with those from jacobin and mother Jones. You can't seriously be claiming he isn't in that intellectual cohort. That rich.
So then they republished and it was like "well if we only look at this group and we take out these and adjust this number" they were able to recover their results but the data hacking was pretty terrible.
If you ate going to write a study like that, relying on phone data screams bias (and these were two economists that couldn't claim they didn't know better).