Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency… by Elizabeth Popp Berman · Audiobook preview

Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy
Authored by Elizabeth Popp Berman
Narrated by Suzie Althens

0:00 Intro
0:03 1. Thinking like an Economist
1:11:44 2. The Economic Style and Its Antecedents
1:12:24 Outro

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BOOK DESCRIPTION

For decades, Democratic politicians have frustrated progressives by tinkering around the margins of policy while shying away from truly ambitious change. What happened to bold political vision on the left, and what shrunk the very horizons of possibility? In Thinking like an Economist, Elizabeth Popp Berman tells the story of how a distinctive way of thinking—an "economic style of reasoning"—became dominant in Washington between the 1960s and the 1980s and how it continues to dramatically narrow debates over public policy today.

Introduced by liberal technocrats who hoped to improve government, this way of thinking was grounded in economics. At its core was an economic understanding of efficiency, and its advocates often found themselves allied with Republicans and in conflict with liberal Democrats who argued for rights, equality, and limits on corporate power. By the Carter administration, economic reasoning had spread throughout government policy and laws affecting poverty, healthcare, antitrust, transportation, and the environment.

Thinking like an Economist offers critical lessons for the future. With the political left resurgent today, Democrats seem poised to break with the past—but doing so will require abandoning the shibboleth of economic efficiency and successfully advocating new ways of thinking about policy.

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AUDIOBOOK DETAILS

Language: English
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
Published on: April 5, 2022
ISBN: 9781696606875
Duration: 12 hr, 3 min
Genres: Business & Economics / Economics / General, Political Science / Public Policy / Economic Policy, Social Science / Sociology / General