Y'all, Baker tends to have a reputation of being strong on the rhetoric but very weak on the actual economics side of his material. It has been demonstrated that his economic assumptions are neo-liberal in their substance. Though this might be an interesting foray at one level, if done in a less than serious fashion it is likely to promote economic illiteracy. This may seem harsh, and buying into the neo-liberal/neo-classical framing of our situation cuts off even imagining informed fiscal options. I come from primarily a post-Keynesian macro-economics and functional finance perspective, and this sits well with my 20 plus years of being active in community centered economic activism, from entrepreneurship development, to being treasurer of two different cooperatives, to being downstream of fraud perpetrated under a false flag of left "progressiv-ism," and other investments regarding. Just finished a series of essays by Bill Mitchell which included a critique of Dean Baker's economics, entitled "With Friends, Like These..." Tadit Anderson, Re-Imagining Economics On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 01:50:04 -0400, Michel Bauwens <[email protected]> wrote:
http://deanbaker.net/images/stories/documents/End-of-Loser-Liberalism.pdf
Hi Kevin, perhaps you'd find chapter 10 interesting, and even chapter 11,
commentary always appreciated if you have time,
Michel