Big Myth
by Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway · first published 2022
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…freedom for individuals It does a piss-poor job of that for the majority of individuals > Freedom encompasses economic freedom That's a relatively recent, capitalistic, construction. See, e.g. The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market, by Erik M. Conway and Naomi Oreskes
on “Abolish Venture Capitalism” ↗…<https://archive.org/details/darkmoneyhiddenh0000maye_k2o0> - Naomi Oreskes and Eric Conway, Merchants of Doubt: on climate disinformation by the Kochs and others.<https://archive.org/details/merchantsofdoubt00ores> - Oreskes and Conway, The Big Myth: on how "free markets" were sold as an ideological fable, by the Kochs and others. <https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/big-myth-9781635573572/> - Philip Mirowski, The Road From Mont Pelerin" on the emergence…
on “Where Did Our Belief in Abundance Come From?” ↗> The Big Myth, by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, recounts the coordinated 20th-century effort to instill unquestioning faith in markets above all There is no positive confidence in markets as such; there is negative…
on “Big Business’s relentless push to equate the free market with freedom” ↗…<https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/13/podcasts/transcript-ezra-...> Book: The Code of Capital (2019) <https://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=D936D0247CB138F23F157A7...> Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway have just published The Big Myth, which looks at the selling of the notion of free markets, specifically in the US. It's an outgrowth of their earlier work on disinformation in the tobacco, CFCs/ozone layer, lead, and oil / global warming…
on “California cancels salmon fishing season” ↗