The values expressed by this position are simply unethical and are increasingly leading to the extremism in our politics. Basically he is saying that we must accept: the highest health costs in the world, some of the highest levels of childhood poverty, hundreds of thousands of people going bankrupt each year because of health debts, inaccessibility of higher education for many of our citizens, high levels of economic inequality, etc. Mankiw is a noted conservative economist, and his guest essay is the classic conservative lament: We cannot afford the safety net provided by many advanced nations. Gregory Mankiw (Opinion guest essay, Sept. ![]() ![]() ![]() Re “ Can We Afford a Welfare State?,” by N.
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