Saturday, September 15, 2012
Weekend Reading - "The Politics of Loss"
The politics that ensue during tough economic times are exposed and they may not be what you would expect.
This is definitely not just casual reading...
At NationalAffairs.com, Jay Cost discusses liberal and conservative approaches to economic things, and the paths that those ideas lead to. He begins:
"When political scientist Harold Lasswell, writing in the mid-1930s, defined politics as the decisions society makes about "who gets what, when, and how," he might as well have been describing the debate over taxes and spending in the United States today. Butwhat happens when the focus of the political debate changes from who gets what to who loses what? This concept is unfamiliar to Americans, who have enjoyed more than 100 years of (mostly) uninterrupted economic growth. The few examples in American history of the politics of loss suggest that the results tend to be explosive."
