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So this economist who views paying undergrad RAs enough to eat as a burden also wrote a paper on how drug addicts should have fewer safety nets so that when they OD they can be left to die. I cannot emphasise enough how evil and perverse this logic is https://twitter.com/jenniferdoleac/status/1350147987490672644
link to the paper here: http://ftp.iza.org/dp11489.pdf
It's driving me insane that the bare minimum level of nuance and reflection is tacked on at the very end of the discussion like an afterthought (better access to drug treatment *might* be better than just naloxone you say? who would've thought!).
When you frame your entire paper as 'social safety nets have unintended consequences' and make no issue of the larger systemic driving forces behind drug addiction or how to fix them until long after every policy maker stopped reading after the abstract, you aren't fooling anyone
Is economics just asking questions like 'what if treating people like human beings and affording them basic dignity is bad actually?' https://justicetechlab.github.io/jdoleac-website/research/Doleac_Hansen_JOLE_preprint.pdf
When doctors who actually know about opioid addiction & treatment write this response to your paper you really need to stop and reconsider that maybe you aren't very good at pretending to do science https://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20180413/voices02/158181/flawed-research-not-useful-amid-opioid-epidemic
paper cited in this letter: https://sci-hub.se/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306460317301119
paper cited in this letter: https://sci-hub.se/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306460317301119
