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Also by Dean Baker:

The End Of Loser Liberalism, September 2011
Paperback / e-Book
Taking Economics Seriously, May 2010
Hardcover
False Profits, January 2010
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Plunder and Blunder, January 2009
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Social Security: The Phony Crisis, September 2001
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THE END OF LOSER LIBERALISM
By: 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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