Progressive vision and history lesson

Stiglitz elegantly and with decades of credibility diagnoses a host of cancerous issues that have for decades allowed for greater monopolised power the plagues of the rights neo fascist economic agenda and the greater impact on growth not just economically but also culturally and socially on the greater whole of society and displays the inefficiency in the private sector in key areas and strengthens the case for government with actual examples that give a credible voice to the role government when more principled can have on the greater good and also redistribution of gains seen mostly to a few hands whilst undermining essential institutions vitals for a prosperous society. It outlines how the American people have been sleep walked into their own destructive future, and have gambled their own interests by the platitudes of a Republican Party that doesn’t essentially have their interests at heart.
I see Stiglitz of the old guard of economists who believe in a more fair and equitable society of what could be if only we saw beyond the short terms and also the individualism made inherited since Regan. And expresses the era since WW2 to regan of greater growth and the slow or rapid decline depending on how you measure it of growth and equity in real terms for so many.
His progressive policy ideas really resonate from a sanders or warren campaign and his voice adds weight to their urgency, and also greater benefit. His critique of anti trust laws is incredibly useful in an age of big tech and stymied innovation and corporate investment and also how market power of the few undermines so much growth and competition essential for a sustainable market.
All in all a great read for those on the left and those great want to challenge their views on the right.

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