“conviction that the present disaster is designed – that it reflects in a deliberate way the interest of the corporations. This I do not believe. I would attribute far more to adherence by the corporate world to outdated and irrelevant ideology, and to political leaders, not excluding the president, who do not know what damage they are accomplishing.”
JKG 1983
that remains the main framing of the paul krugman/joe stiglitz set
today
apart from a few and marvelously naive excursions into possible "class "conflict motives
example ?
pk and the anti inflationary bias of "rentiers"
and he could even get here
"“It took me a while to puzzle this out. But the concerns Mr. Obama expressed become comprehensible if you suppose that he’s getting his views, directly or indirectly, from Wall Street.”
but apparently the obvious implications of this sound insight
though they must have run thru his mind
but without the epiphany that might have triggered
sound new memes can be easily crowded out
by habitual memes
particularly where the new memes seem to be leading you out on a limb
