Paul Krugman: Upstairs, Downstairs, Outside: Via Mark Thoma, David Cay Johnston has a great piece noting that today’s service economy is in many ways like the Edwardian-era economy in which a small number of wealthy people employed a large number of servants — except that we tend to outsource the service, relying on restaurants and … Continue reading Afternoon Must-Read: David Cay Johnston on Our Unequal Neo-Upstairs, Downstairs Economy