“Thinking Big” with Elizabeth Popp Berman

Why has it been so hard for progressive policies to take root in Washington? In the “indispensable, deeply researched, and powerfully argued” Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy, the University of Michigan’s Dr. Elizabeth Popp Berman spells out a key reason: the mid-century turn toward an “economic style of reasoning” that sidelined policymakers’ concerns for fairness, rights, and equality. This kind of thinking — and its centering of efficiency goals — has often served to shrink the horizons of policy reform and undermine progressive aims. That’s now changing.

Tonight, at 8pm ET/5pm PT, please join the American Economic Liberties Project as we talk with Dr. Popp Berman for the second installment of Economic Liberties’ new “Thinking Big” series. We’ll dig into the origins of this economic style of reasoning, its takeover of federal policymaking, and how it can be overcome.

You can purchase Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality at your local, independent bookstore here and read more about it in Boston Review.

And stay tuned for more “Thinking Big” programming. On August 16, we’ll feature Brandi Collins-Dexter, a visiting fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and member of Economic Liberties’ Board of Directors, to talk about her upcoming book Black Skinhead: Reflections on Blackness and Our Political Future. If you missed our first “Thinking Big” with The New York Times’ Peter Goodman, you can catch a recording of the discussion here.

Thanks, and hope you’ll join us!

Warmly,

Sarah Miller

Executive Director

American Economic Liberties Project
1150 Connecticut Ave NW
Suite 800
Washington, DC 20036
United States

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