Interview with Elizabeth Popp Berman about the influence of economic reasoning in social policy

Dr. Elizabeth Popp Berman, Associate Professor of Organizational Studies at University of Michigan, discusses her new book 'Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy' and the influence of economic reasoning in social policy. They explore the conflict within the Democratic party, the planning programming budgeting system (PPBS), conflicting views on universal health insurance, key actors and intellectual communities that shaped social policy, the influence of economic reasoning in crime policy, and the challenge of applying economic thinking in policy debates.