{"id":4564,"date":"2020-02-24T13:46:18","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T05:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/?p=4564"},"modified":"2020-02-24T13:47:49","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T05:47:49","slug":"mainly-macro-blog-post-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/?p=4564","title":{"rendered":"From Simon Wren-Lewis&#8217; Blog: The left needs to campaign for social liberalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mainly Macro:\u00a0Comment on macroeconomic issues<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Droid Sans', Arial, 'sans serif';font-size: 18px\">Tuesday, 18 February 2020<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><a name=\"8512052523270173619\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>The left needs to campaign for social liberalism<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mainlymacro.blogspot.com\/2020\/02\/the-left-needs-to-campaign-for-social.html?m=1&amp;from=timeline&amp;isappinstalled=0\">https:\/\/mainlymacro.blogspot.com\/2020\/02\/the-left-needs-to-campaign-for-social.html?m=1&amp;from=timeline&amp;isappinstalled=0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This evidence suggests two important but provocative conclusions, which for me represent tentative hypotheses rather than anything firm. First, the key division in UK society today as far as elections are concerned is the social liberal\/conservative divide, rather than ABCD class divisions or how left wing economic policy is.[2] Brexit was not an aberration but part of a trend. The big divide in the UK is partly age but mainly education. [3] The political right understands this, which is why elections will be fought on proxies for this divide. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Second, social conservatism is not immutable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mainly Macro:\u00a0Comment on macroeconomic issues Tuesday, 18 February 2020 The left needs to campaign for social liberalism https:\/\/mainlymacro.blogspot.com\/2020\/02\/the-left-needs-to-campaign-for-social.html?m=1&amp;from=timeline&amp;isappinstalled=0 This evidence suggests two important but provocative conclusions, which for me represent tentative hypotheses rather than anything firm. First, the key division in UK society today as far as elections are concerned is the social liberal\/conservative divide, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4564"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4567,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4564\/revisions\/4567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}