Sublime

Without the looming threat of a rival superpower, the last thirty years of global neoliberalism have witnessed a rapid shriveling of social programs that protect citizens from cyclical instability and financial crises and reduce the vast inequality of economic outcomes between those at the top and bottom of the income distribution.

Tocqueville

Even if you don’t regard material wealth as central to human well-being, economic growth brings many other values, including, for instance, much greater access to the arts and education. Economic growth also gives individuals greater autonomy and minimizes the chance that their destiny will be determined by the time and place in which they were

Seriously. In part that’s because the economics of the twentieth century was overwhelmingly about how best to share existing “pies” of human well-being, rather than how

n’ont plus les moyens aujourd’hui d’avoir la taille qu’ils ont adoptée au XXe siècle. Or, qu’est-ce qui caractérise la taille de l’État au XXe siècle par rapport au XIXe ? Essentiellement la naissance de l’État-providence. C’est donc surtout l’État-providence qui devra être réduit, et l’État devra surtout revenir à ses fonctions régaliennes :

How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.