{"id":909,"date":"2011-03-07T12:25:16","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T17:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=909"},"modified":"2011-03-07T12:27:34","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T17:27:34","slug":"fast-forward-to-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2011\/03\/07\/fast-forward-to-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast forward to the past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/03\/07\/stagnation-google-and-the-in-box-say-otherwise\/\">The In Box<\/a> today the conversation is about Tyler Cowan&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/03\/07\/134324066\/Misconception-Will-U-S-Economy-Grow-Indefinitely\">interview<\/a> on <em>Morning Edition<\/em>. The economist&#8217;s recently published book, <strong>The Great Stagnation<\/strong>, argues that the US economy has pretty much stagnated since WW II&#8211;and definitely since the 1970s, except for the development of the internet. Brian Mann pushes back against Cowan&#8217;s thesis, commenters weigh in on all sides of the issue.<\/p>\n<p>I heard the Cowan interview and basically agreed with him. But it raises other questions for me: how much and what type of growth is &#8220;good&#8221; growth? who benefits from growth and innovation these days&#8211;or is that what has really changed?<\/p>\n<p>Then, I opened the latest <strong>Utne<\/strong> online and came across this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utne.com\/Politics\/Revisiting-WPA-New-Deal-Presidents-Roosevelt-Obama.aspx?newsletter=1&amp;utm_content=03.07.11+Great+Writing&amp;utm_campaign=UTR_ENEWS&amp;utm_source=iPost&amp;utm_medium=email\">article<\/a> about revisiting the impact of\u00a0 the New Deal. Maybe an old idea like the New Deal really is what we need&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at The In Box today the conversation is about Tyler Cowan&#8217;s interview on Morning [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[5444],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}