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The Big Con: Crackpot Economics and the Fleecing of America (Jonathan Chait)
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#supplysideeconomics #conservativepolicycapture #Washingtonlobbyingnetworks #medianormalizationofideology #taxcutsfortherich #TheBigCon
The Big Con: Crackpot Economics and the Fleecing of America is a political journalism and policy critique by Jonathan Chait that examines how a small but influential network of conservative economic ideologues helped reshape American politics over several decades. Published in the mid-2000s, the book focuses on supply-side economics and the broader conservative project that promoted tax cuts, market fundamentalism, and anti-government rhetoric as common sense despite weak evidence and repeated policy failures. Chait presents the book as an investigation into how these ideas entered mainstream debate, were normalized by political elites, and became durable even when they lacked broad public support. Rather than treating the story as a technical economics text, he frames it as a political history of persuasion, manipulation, and institutional capture. The result is a work aimed at readers who want to understand how economic arguments are used in partisan conflict and how policy can be driven by ideology more than evidence.
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#supplysideeconomics #conservativepolicycapture #Washingtonlobbyingnetworks #medianormalizationofideology #taxcutsfortherich #TheBigCon
The Big Con: Crackpot Economics and the Fleecing of America is a political journalism and policy critique by Jonathan Chait that examines how a small but influential network of conservative economic ideologues helped reshape American politics over several decades. Published in the mid-2000s, the book focuses on supply-side economics and the broader conservative project that promoted tax cuts, market fundamentalism, and anti-government rhetoric as common sense despite weak evidence and repeated policy failures. Chait presents the book as an investigation into how these ideas entered mainstream debate, were normalized by political elites, and became durable even when they lacked broad public support. Rather than treating the story as a technical economics text, he frames it as a political history of persuasion, manipulation, and institutional capture. The result is a work aimed at readers who want to understand how economic arguments are used in partisan conflict and how policy can be driven by ideology more than evidence.
