Summary of The Big Myth By Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market - E-book - ePub

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Exceptionally summarized content that you may skip in the original book Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway's book Merchants of Doubt reveals the history of the myth of the "free market" in America, revealing the origins of climate change denial and the "magic of the marketplace." In the early 20th century, business elites, trade associations, wealthy powerbrokers, and media allies set out to build a new American orthodoxy: down with "big government" and up with unfettered markets.
This propaganda was successful, leading to a housing crisis, opioid scourge, climate destruction, and a baleful response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Only by understanding this history can we imagine a future where markets serve, not stifle, democracy.