{"id":5572,"date":"2021-03-03T15:36:40","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T07:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/?p=5572"},"modified":"2021-03-03T15:36:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T07:36:40","slug":"krugman-too-much-choice-is-hurting-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/?p=5572","title":{"rendered":"Krugman: Too Much Choice Is Hurting America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Learning from subprime, health care and electricity.<br \/>\nBy Paul Krugman<br \/>\nNYT, March 1, 2021<br \/>\n<iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Too Much Choice Is Hurting America\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/svc\/oembed\/html\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2021%2F03%2F01%2Fopinion%2Fderegulation-health-care-electricity.html#?secret=wkR2mTc2CA\" data-secret=\"wkR2mTc2CA\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nDan Patrick, the lieutenant governor of Texas, is clearly what my father would have called a piece of work.<br \/>\nEarly in the pandemic he made headlines by saying that older Americans should be willing to risk death so that younger people could \u201cget back to work.\u201d More recently, he suggested that Texans who found themselves with $17,000 electricity bills after the February freeze had only themselves to blame, because they didn\u2019t \u201cread the fine print.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8230;.How did we become a country where families can face ruin unless they carefully study something as mundane, as normally routine, as their electricity contract?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning from subprime, health care and electricity. By Paul Krugman NYT, March 1, 2021 Dan Patrick, the lieutenant governor of Texas, is clearly what my father would have called a piece of work. Early in the pandemic he made headlines by saying that older Americans should be willing to risk death so that younger people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","category-international-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5572","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5573,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5572\/revisions\/5573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}