Card & Krueger

[Esuric]

@Student

i said that you seem to start with your political conclusions and find your economic arguments by working backwards from there.

This is a baseless accusation. You do not know me, and you don’t know why I hold the positions that I hold. Either way, stating that government interventionism is inherently self-defeating is not a political position; it is sound economics. The fact that you have a “criteria for government intervention” makes your position political (not mine). Again, I’m wholly uninterested in social engineering.

@Student

and that is probably why you had (and apparently continue to have) a hard time believing that I can both dislike minimum wage laws (a political position) and still recognize that there are circumstances when they may increase employment (an economic argument)

I dealt with this:

@Esuric

Yes, with a powerful enough imagination, one can certainly envisage a combination of highly unlikely circumstances (by highly unlikely, I mean practically impossible) that would make a price floor in the labor market both effective and appropriate. The same way that one could, at least conceivably, imagine playing tennis under water.

Again, I understand that it is possible to imagine the occurrence of certain impossible events, such as playing tennis underwater.