&gt;Your promotion of this odd conspiracy about bourgeoisie capitalist economists being bought out by think tanks<p>This economist <i>literally works for a think tank</i> and his paper is <i>published on that think tank&#x27;s website</i>.<p>For it to be an actual conspiracy that he is bought out I think it would have to actually be hidden from view somehow.<p>I can only speculate as to his motivations behind attacking doctors in this paper, but there isn&#x27;t a shadow of a doubt that he <i>is</i> attacking them.<p>You literally can&#x27;t blame doctors&#x27; wages on the rise of income inequality if they&#x27;ve been falling. <i>If the paper actually said that they were rising</i> I could have understood but it doesn&#x27;t. Dean Baker is just doing a rather pathetic exercise in misdirection by talking about wages in other countries and how doctor&#x27;s wages haven&#x27;t necessarily been falling as fast as everybody else&#x27;s.<p>&gt;I just don&#x27;t know how one can respond to you.<p>Believe me, the feeling&#x27;s mutual. Apparently some people are impressed by the thin veneer of academic pseudo-legitimacy that comes from putting a couple of equations in a PDF and turn off the critical thinking section in their skulls.