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Many Americans are seduced by the idea that piecemeal voluntary efforts can somehow replace a systematic public approach to eliminating poverty. But this reasoning is based on the inherent falsehood that scarcity—rather than inequality—is at the root of these persisting social and economic problems.
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded
Incite!
The lack of understanding of causation can limit the value of any insights derived from RCTs in understanding economic life or in designing further policies and interventions.
Economics’ Biggest Success Story Is a Cautionary Tale
foreignpolicy.com
We welcome discussions about the shortcomings of actually existing social movements and their lack of political analyses, and we want social movements influenced by prefigurative ideas to have better access to political writing and to take strategic questions more seriously (that's one of the reasons we have written this book).
Prefigurative Politics
Paul Raekstad and Sofia Saio Gradin
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