DeLong Smackdown of the Day for June 12, 2010: Robert Waldmann New Deal Unemployment Edition

Hoisted from Comments: Robert Waldmann writes:

I'm with Michael Darby on This One: As a certified angrybear, I thank you for the link (growl). As someone who used Lebergott's numbers without reading the footnotes, I suggest [i.e., wy didn't you do this already? you messed up:] cutting and pasting the methodological footnote in which Lebergott assertst that it is reasonable to considert the WPA to be essnetially the same as Buchenwald, Dachau and the gulag (I am not exaggerating at...