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

Wed Sep 7 12:49:51 CEST 2011

thanks, do you have a link to the baker critique you mention below?

Michel

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 4:59 PM, <ideasinc at ee.net> wrote:

> 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
>
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