Thinking Like an Economist – LPE Project https://lpeproject.org The Law and Political Economy Project Thu, 27 Apr 2023 00:49:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://lpeproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-LPE_Favicon_512px_BlackBG-450x450.png Thinking Like an Economist – LPE Project https://lpeproject.org 32 32 The Economics of Reaction https://lpeproject.org/blog/the-economics-of-reaction/ Thu, 22 Sep 2022 11:05:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=7438 This post concludes our symposium on Beth Popp Berman’s Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy. Read the rests of the posts here. *** Beth Popp Berman’s Thinking Like an Economist seeks to understand the rise in American policy circles of the microeconomic mindset – what she refers to as the “economic style of reasoning.” Berman traces the rise of the...

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]]> Thinking like a President https://lpeproject.org/blog/thinking-like-a-president/ Tue, 20 Sep 2022 11:04:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=7435 This post is part of a symposium on Beth Popp Berman’s Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy. Read the rests of the posts here. *** A central observation of Elizabeth Popp Berman’s illuminating book, Thinking Like an Economist, is that Democrats have hewed more closely to what she calls “the economic style of reasoning” than Republicans. Republicans...

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]]> The ‘Economic Style’ as Red Scare Legacy https://lpeproject.org/blog/the-economic-style-as-red-scare-legacy/ Tue, 13 Sep 2022 11:03:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=7396 This post is part of a symposium on Beth Popp Berman’s Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy. Read the rests of the posts here. *** In Thinking Like an Economist, Elizabeth Popp Berman traces the emergence and diffusion across government agencies and policy domains of an “economic style of reasoning” that prioritized efficiency at the expense of values...

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]]> What Could Replace the Economic Style? https://lpeproject.org/blog/what-could-replace-the-economic-style/ Mon, 12 Sep 2022 11:01:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=7378 This post is part of a symposium on Beth Popp Berman’s Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy. Read the rests of the posts here. *** In Thinking Like an Economist, sociologist Elizabeth Popp Berman examines an “economic style” of reasoning that has become dominant in certain areas of policy analysis and evaluation (including cost-benefit analysis...

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]]> When It Comes to the History of Economics, Don’t Think like an Economist https://lpeproject.org/blog/when-it-comes-to-the-history-of-economics-dont-think-like-an-economist/ Tue, 06 Sep 2022 11:03:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=7352 This post is part of a symposium on Beth Popp Berman’s Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy. Read the rests of the posts here. *** Beth Popp Berman accomplishes two big things in her book Thinking Like an Economist. First, she demonstrates conclusively the existence of what she calls the “economic style.” This point, which never should have been in...

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]]> The Limits of “Thinking like an Economist” https://lpeproject.org/blog/the-limits-of-thinking-like-an-economist/ Mon, 05 Sep 2022 11:02:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=7347 This post introduces a symposium on Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy. Read the rests of the posts here. *** In 2008, Barack Obama was elected president on a promise of “hope and change.” Many of Obama’s supporters anticipated that he would usher in substantial policy change, and progressive Democrats, in particular, were energized by the results of...

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