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    Looking for A Better Way: Personal Reflections On Economics, Morality and Common Sense
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    Looking for A Better Way: Personal Reflections On Economics, Morality and Common Sense

    By Richard Patterson

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    Presidential elections often involve debates about the economy, what ails it and how to fix it. Increasingly it seems that candidates exist in parallel universes in terms of economics. Each side bases its analysis and policy proposals on a set of certainties which seem hopelessly contradictory to the certainties of the other. Campaigns do not really permit candidates to explain the assumptions behind their economic proposals. Speeches tend to be peppered with buzzwords or references that will enable the “average American voter” to connect the proposals to some personal experience that shapes his or her ideas about “the economy.”
    While voters were never asked to decide how to resolve a conflict between particle theory and wave theory in physics, they are asked to decide whether to reduce government spending in order to improve the economy. The vote cast indicates not only a desire to have an easier time for ones own family but also a decision as to which set of economists to believe when it comes to predictions about the effects of government spending. It would be nice if there were consensus among the experts, but we have to vote now, and we find reasons to trust one person rather than another. Perhaps most of us would say we rely on “common sense.”

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRichard Patterson
    Release dateJul 14, 2018
    ISBN9780463532041
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    Looking for A Better Way: Personal Reflections On Economics, Morality and Common Sense
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    Richard Patterson

    Richard Patterson was born in Birmingham, Alabama. He studied philosophy at Yale and did a year of post-graduate work in literature at Cambridge before embarking on a career in film. His book on Sowell grew indirectly out of work he did for a masters degree in humanities from California State University at Dominguez Hills.

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