Book contents
- Post-Truth American Politics
- Post-Truth American Politics
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Note on cover image
- 1 Getting Started
- 2 Stories
- 3 The Enlightenment
- 4 The Political Crisis
- 5 The Economic Crisis
- 6 Political Stories
- 7 Economic Stories
- 8 Choosing
- 9 The Ethics of Responsibility
- 10 Refraining
- 11 Dissembling
- 12 What Now?
- Afterword
- Index
7 - Economic Stories
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 September 2023
- Post-Truth American Politics
- Post-Truth American Politics
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Note on cover image
- 1 Getting Started
- 2 Stories
- 3 The Enlightenment
- 4 The Political Crisis
- 5 The Economic Crisis
- 6 Political Stories
- 7 Economic Stories
- 8 Choosing
- 9 The Ethics of Responsibility
- 10 Refraining
- 11 Dissembling
- 12 What Now?
- Afterword
- Index
Summary
Chapter 6 shows how false Stories help to perpetuate the economic imbalance described in Chapter 4. These Stories include those of economic growth, comparative advantage, creative destruction, and ceaseless innovation. Most of them originate in mainstream economics, including praise for shareholder interests and insistence on social choice theory. Karl Polanyi claimed that such Stories, which endorse a society roiled by constant change, ignore what he called community welfare.
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- Post-Truth American PoliticsFalse Stories and Current Crises, pp. 97 - 118Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023