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> Reasonable economists find an inconvenient result, so pressure them to recant

Who pressured them?

When the study was originally published there was a large volume of stories criticizing it for reaching an undesired conclusion.

Economists pushing views and rationalizations against labor-friendly policies (including minimum wage hikes) tend to do pretty well for themselves in America, very odd that they'd feel pressured to recant something that's well received in a lot of circles. Maybe they actually were just wrong the first time around?

> Economists pushing views and rationalizations against labor-friendly policies (including minimum wage hikes) tend to do pretty well for themselves in America, very odd that they'd feel pressured to recant something that's well received in a lot of circles.

The economists who do well producing those results work for think tanks (which partisans use to push their agendas and everyone else disregards as biased). These economists work for a public university.

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