[P2P-F] blog commentary on dean baker's loser liberalism bk

Wed Sep 7 11:59:07 CEST 2011

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  
<michel at p2pfoundation.net> 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