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The Tyranny of Dead Ideas
Matt Miller
Letting Go of the Old Ways of Thinking to Unleash a New Prosperity
Times Books
January 2009
On Sale: January 6, 2009
272 pages
ISBN: 0805087877
EAN: 9780805087871
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
A leading political and business thinker identifies the
greatest threat to our economic future: the things we think
we know—but don’t America is at a crossroads. In the face of global
competition and rapid technological change, our economy is
about to face its most severe test in nearly a century—one
that will make the recent turmoil in the financial system
look like a modest setback by comparison. Yet our leaders
have failed to prepare us for what lies ahead because they
are in the grip of a set of "dead ideas" about how a modern
economy should work. They wrongly believe that Our kids will earn more than we do
Free trade is always good, no matter who gets hurt
Employers should be responsible for health coverage
Taxes hurt the economy
Schools are a local matter
Money follows merit
These ways of thinking—dubious at best and often dead wrong—
are on a collision course with economic developments that
are irre-versible. In The Tyranny of Dead Ideas, Matt Miller offers a unique
blend of insights from history, psychology, and economics
to illuminate where today’s destructive conventional wisdom
came from and how it holds our country back. He also
introduces us to a new way of thinking—what he
calls "tomorrow’s destined ideas"—that can reinvigorate our
economy, our politics, and our day-to-day lives. These
destined ideas may seem counterintuitive now, but they will
coalesce in the coming years in ways that will transform
America. A strikingly original assessment of our current dilemma and
an indispensable guide to our future, Miller’s provocative
and path-breaking book reveals why it is urgent that we
break the tyranny of dead ideas, for it is only by doing so
that we can move beyond the limits of today’s obsolete
debates and reinvent American capitalism and democracy for
the twenty-first century.
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