'By his day’s standards, and perhaps also today’s, Roosevelt was an economic populist'.
What nonsense. Roosevelt was an economic leftist bourgeoisie.
His New Deal was a bourgeoisie New Deal, not at all a populist New Deal. He was a leftist liberal economic globalist, what Rodrik thinks a populist means.
FDR didn't give Southern, long freed, negroes the economic time of day.
He gave Northern white liberal and leftist factory workers what little he could throw together. The country really did not turn around until WWII, not at all by the faux populist New Deal. The big big thing that put a lot of populist poor people to work was the war!
Rodrik talks populism, identified with the gold standard, and how we went off it in 1933. It is all smoke and mirrors.
We stayed on the gold standard more or less until I think 1971.
The critical and important things that happened in this long long slide from 1914 he doesn't touch.
He picked his bad populist bogey to set against his good populist hero.
He is basically trying, in the last ditch, to make an economist still look smart and good, whereas now any economist, baby, is nothing more than a cleverly disguised TAR BABY.
The whole discipline has now finally been revealed as a huge tar baby responsible for the ideological underpinnings for the relentless decline of the West.
Rodrik talks populism, identified with the gold standard, and how we went off it in 1933. It is all smoke and mirrors.
We stayed on the gold standard more or less until I think 1971.
The critical and important things that happened in this long long slide from 1914 he doesn't touch.
He picked his bad populist bogey to set against his good populist hero.
He is basically trying, in the last ditch, to make an economist still look smart and good, whereas now any economist, baby, is nothing more than a cleverly disguised TAR BABY.
The whole discipline has now finally been revealed as a huge tar baby responsible for the ideological underpinnings for the relentless decline of the West.
No comments:
Post a Comment