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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

Why we can’t just blame capitalism for everything

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Importance of Maximalism in Politics

The great recession was sort of a reminder of how quickly the floor can drop out and how predictably capitalist accesses can unravel really our social order. What we showed there is that the government has the ability to make recessions in the sense that we know them, we can make them optional. And I'm worried with the politics of inflation that we might not make the same choice again.

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