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The End Of Loser Liberalism
Dean Baker
Making Markets Progressive
Center for Economic and Policy Research
September 2011
On Sale: September 19, 2011
170 pages ISBN: 0615533639 EAN: 9780615533636 Kindle: B005KV35PQ Paperback / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Political
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 puts
liberals in the position of seeming to want to tax the
winners to help the losers. This "loser liberalism" is bad
policy and horrible politics. Progressives would be better off fighting battles over the
structure of markets so that they don't redistribute income
upward. This book describes some of the key areas where
progressives can focus their efforts in restructuring the
market so that more income flows to the bulk of the working
population rather than just a small elite.
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