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Conventional wisdom as a proxy for acceptability


Conventional wisdom is "the ideas which are esteemed at any time for their acceptability."

-- John Kenneth Galbraith

OPINION
The Pain Caucus
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: May 30, 2010
Less than a year into a weak recovery from the worst slump since World War II, there is a dangerous urge to stop helping the jobless and start inflicting pain.

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