Marshall Steinbaum is assistant professor of Economics at the University of Utah and Senior Fellow in Higher Education Finance at the Jain Family Institute.
The Great Depression thoroughly discredited laissez-faire economics. But over the postwar decades, with the help of generous business funding and political connections, figures like Milton Friedman led a remarkable revival of nineteenth-century economic ideas. They did it by adopting a pseudo-populist rhetoric that celebrated individual choice and autonomy.
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Throughout history, the Right has cared more about preserving private property than about promoting democracy.
Trump’s laptop ban is racist and paranoid. It’s also a huge giveaway to American airline monopolies.
A Vox writer sets out to prove social-democratic policies aided the far right. He fails.
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Blame elites for the far right’s rise.