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Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy

Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy

A book by Elizabeth Popp Berman exploring the rise of the economic style of reasoning in policy

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    ““The economic style portrays efficiency as a politically neutral value. Any objective can be achieved in a more or less efficient manner, and who would advocate for inefficiency? Yet, as we will see, centering efficiency often means displacing other political values, or ignoring the politics behind the process of identifying efficient policy decisions.””

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