The End of Loser Liberalism
Economist and Co-Founder of The Center for Economic and Policy Research Dean Baker has released a free, online edition of his book
The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive
“Progressives need a fundamentally new approach to politics. They have been losing not just because conservatives have so much more money and power, but also because they have accepted the conservatives’ framing of political debates. They have accepted a framing where conservatives want market outcomes whereas liberals want the government to intervene to bring about outcomes that they consider fair.
This is not true. Conservatives rely on the government all the time, most importantly in structuring the market in ways that ensure that income flows upwards. The framing that conservatives like the market while liberals like the government puts liberals in the position of seeming to want to tax the winners to help the losers.”
Listen online here or below to Baker talk with Jay Acroyd on Virtually Speaking.
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