Raj Chetty Slaps At The Affluent Again. So Why Does He Work At Harvard?
You may remember Raj Chetty from such studies as “The affluent are dooming our very hopes for the future:”
Much like some guys salivate over Andrew Tate or Jason Aldean or The Rock or some Marvel superhero, there is a class of pseudo-intellectual guys who went to universities a lot less well-known than Harvard to love to quote Raj Chetty. If you are a disaffected urban liberal that wants to talk about inequality without actually doing anything about inequality, he is your gold standard in terms of academics. He has lots of things you can cite and quote about how the rich control society, with nary an action item in site. It’s OK to have that Hamptons house, or that Door County (Wisconsin) property. You know how to discuss the failings of the affluent, even as it remains aspirational for you — or, frankly, is reality.
Chetty and some collaborators have new work out about college admissions:
