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Rather than recognize that the highest human rationality is to reason about the things we want to want – not merely reason about how to get what we (assume we) want– the neoliberal policy approach aims simply to ... maximize existing preferences, however crudely they may be apprehended and irrespective of whether their content implies a pathway to disaster.
Ways Not to Think About Climate Change
Kysar, Doug
In devising fixes to the world’s ills, the essential first step is to understand what the protagonists want and how different policies and changes will affect their welfare.
The Dictator's Handbook
de Mesquita Bueno
Facing potential insubordination from powerful actors, radical Keynesians would need to threaten firms with full socialization. In order to make good on those threats, they would need to have already developed and disseminated a clear plan for doing away with private enterprise. But then, __to have any chance of securing their aims, radical Keynesians would also need to have won the backing of major social movements. Only movements that presented a truly existential threat to asset owners’ wealth would be able to bring capital to heel.__ Yet if those social movements were powerful enough to force capital to submit to a public-investment-driven economy, why would they not demand more? Such movements would not willingly allow for power’s further concentration in the hands of the state (instead, they would demand a devolution of power to democratic organs of the people themselves).
Automation and the Future of Work
Aaron Benanav
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